[Kizzy]

If it's not ok for people to lean on the state then why are businesses allowed to lean on the state.
I've seen this clamor for the onus to be on businesses... why, why when we are all individuals and think as individuals are companies suddenly more important?

If you are a big business pay your staff a wage which removes them from state subsidisation.
If you are a small business have as many staff as you can support with a fair wage, that is how it always was prior to welfare, if you can only afford to run your business using staff who rely on governmental credit to remain in work it still evokes a feeling of benefit dependency as you are still reliant on the state even though working.

Why also are workers continuously moved out of tax? the Labour ethos is the working person living and contributing to society via expenditure and tax.... then let them pay some. even on minimum wage, how can you feel you are contributing to society and feel inclusive as tax payers if that duty is denied?
That sense of pride is then manifested by those who fall within the tax perimeters as resentment towards those who don't, towards those who don't work and also now the unskilled workers that do creating a divide.