It is not for taxpayers to subsidise large families
PARENTS with large numbers of children are costing taxpayers millions of pounds.
The 27,000 families that have six or more children are raking in £130million a year in child benefit alone and there are 400 mums who have had 10 or more children.
As Andy Silvester of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “It’s not for the Government to decide how many children you have but taxpayers can’t be expected to keep picking up the bill.”
Taxpayers can’t be expected to keep picking up the bill
There are many hard-working people who would dearly love a bigger family but choose to wait or have fewer children in order to ensure that they can provide for them.
This is the responsible attitude to parenting.
But some have child after child and pick up more money from the Government every month.
Cutting child benefit for households where at least one parent was paying the higher income tax rate was politically challenging for the Government and in some quarters regarded as unfair.
But when hard?pressed responsible parents have to subsidise the large families of those who recklessly had too many offspring we need to talk seriously about limiting the benefit to the first two children.
