From The Daily Mail:
A young couple who receive more than £170,000 a year in benefits appeared on ITV's This Morning to defend their taxpayer-funded lifestyle.
William Windsor, 30, and Kate Middleton, 31, who live in a comfortable twenty-bedroom mansion in Norfolk and are expecting a daughter next year, say they are better off on £170,000 benefits and argue that unless they are able to find jobs that pay £180,000 a year or more, there's no point in working.
The couple also hit back at those who describe them as scroungers, arguing that because their hard-working parents have always collected rent and taxes, they are entitled to continue claiming for themselves.
Kate, who has worked in her parents' greeting card business in the past, said: "I don’t see that we’re living off the taxpayers, we’re entitled to the same money as his parents have been receiving all their lives."
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
'Why should we work? Our parents collect tax so we're entitled to benefit': Couple living off £170,000 handouts say working for the minimum wage is "A bit dull, yah?"
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6 comments:
Nice parody.
RK, ta, the best ones are the easy ones.
"they are better off on £17k benefits and argue that unless they are able to find jobs that pay £18,000 a year or more, there's no point in working"
Both the happy couple and the DM are crap at maths: if their current income is £17,680 this is equivalent to take home pay (or is the government daft enough to tax people on benefits?), so a job paying £18,000 a year would only bring in about £220 a week, bringing their income down to £300 a week once you include child benefit and child tax credits.
Of course, the DM doesn't point out that £7,280 of that £17,680 is going straight into the pocket of the landlord of their "comfortable" flat. (WTF is "comfortable" supposed to mean? any couple with half a brain and time on their hands can make the meanest shithole "comfortable". I suppose that DM readers would ideally like everyone on benefits living in a workhouse or somewhaere else that is designed to be as uncomfortable as possible.)
B, yes, good maths. To have a similar net income after housing costs from working, they'd need to be on at least £30,000 gross.
Best parody yet. Going to steal^H^H^H^H^H share on Farcebook.
TCO, ta.
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