Last week a couple won £100 million pounds on the lottery. That is far too much money for any family, while many other people can hardly afford to eat.
The real point is that we are all in this recession together and its wrong for people to live in a financial bubble while the rest of us suffer.
Many people are forced to live off job-seekers allowance and spend each day walking miles looking for work that doesn't even exist.
Its wrong that peoples biggest decision is what type of caviar to eat while for most brits its what are the cheapest economy beefburgers, and can we afford them? The super rich will go off on round the world holidays, lying on a beach etc, but if job-seekers go on holiday they have their benefits stopped. Many people are struggling to find work and stuck at home watching tv each day while the rich play golf and live a life of luxury.
Britain is becoming a land of have and have nots while the gap between rich and poor is getting wider each day.
*As a TEMPORARY measure only until the recession is over*
Lottery winnings should be capped and anyone who wins a huge jackpot should be loyal to their working class origins and share their wealth.
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Yours is but a shameful display of rationalized envy.
If job seekers go on holiday they get their benefits stopped? You find that surprising or wrong? I know plenty of people who WORK and have worked all their lives who can't afford a holiday. Job seekers are paid an allowance to find work, not swan off on holiday or "watch TV all day" with money paid to them as a result of workers paying taxes. JSA is not an alternative to a wage and you shouldn't expect to be able to fund holidays while you are on it.
What is wrong with this country when the people who do well in life, work hard, educate themselves, save, make good life decisions and make the most of their talents and abilities are seen as "wrong"?
If people can play golf and live a life of luxury, good luck to them. In the majority of cases they earned the right to do just that. It's called reaping the rewards of hard work. It's a pity more people don't emulate their work ethic.
What's the point of working hard and being successful if you only end up having it all taken away from you and shared out with people who have made little or no comparable effort?
Winning the lottery is a dream - a fairy tale. We buy tickets in the hope that we will win the jackpot. Would you take that away as well?
I don't begrudge the winners their moment of celebration, but I believe if the money was allowed to roll to say 5 million and the excess every week until this sum was won, to be shared out as bigger prizes for those with say 5 or 4 numbers, it would make a lot of more people happy because a lot more people would get better prizes - it would spread the goodwill instead of confining it. Another alternative would be for the excess to go to charity, where the poor would benefit, albeit it indirectly.
It wouldn't really change the ratio of haves to have-nots, because of course the wealthy would always be able to buy more tickets than other folk.
My idea might not work very well though - the Lottery is based on its appeal to greed.
Why? That is not how a lottery works. Lottery is gambling with the side affect that the lottery also already gives grants to charitable causes in the UK too. If I thought I knew I was only going to possible get 50k I wouldn't bother getting a lottery ticket.
Plus if I won that level of money I would give huge chunks away to people who are deserving of it. Not be forced to give it away to people who dropped out school had 5 babies and then wonder why they can't get a job and don't have enough money to feed their children.
Don't get me wrong. I empathise with anyone who can't get a job and is suffering as a result of the economic downturn in the UK. However, I don't begrudge anyone buying a lottery ticket with their own money and winning millions. I'd feel slightly sick in the knowledge that someone had won the lottery with taxpayers money.
And lets not pretend that being on the dole stops most people from putting a quid on at the weekend - it doesn't.
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