Why the Child Benefit cuts have made me despise Cameron's 'Conservatives' even more than I did already

Not because it's going to leave my family nearly two grand a year out of pocket. But because of the way the Conservatives have made such heavy weather of it. Really, the case for cutting child benefit for the (relatively) affluent middle classes ought to be a no-brainer. How can it possibly make sense to have a system where the government steals earners' income through taxes and then gives a tiny sliver of it back to them with a prissy label attached saying: "This is to be spent on your children?" As if, somehow, left to their own devices, salaried parents would instead blow their wodge on Albanian donkey porn and Krispy Kreme donuts?

There are two reasons we have been brought to this sorry pass…

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