Owen Jones is right to highlight the plight of the working destitute but incorrect to propose the respond should have ever been tax credits (Opinion,theguardian.com, 16 October). It can never be right to subsidise poverty-pay corporate employers with the revenue collected from low- and middle-income workers. Employers should be compelled to pay living wage rates.
Of course the problem of the working destitute was in part created by the sham of New Labours minimum wage legislation, and which,far from troubling exploitative employers, functioned in their interests.
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Source: theguardian.com