[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The living wage is a red herring in my opinion, for anyone but the young free and single. If wages were increased then tax credits would be decreased more or less to match. Taking the burden off of the government and onto the employers, but not leaving many people any better off.

For anyone living at home with mum and dad with no responsibilities or bills to pay other than "their keep" it would be brilliant, though. And maybe for young singles in a house-share situation. Utterly useless for working families.

Not really as if the onus was on the employers not the government to subsidise wages the economy would be better off, they may even be able to reduce VAT so it would benefit working families.