“There’s enough child poverty” - Liverpool reacts to to lift of the two child benefit cap - video Dailymotion

The cap on benefits for more than two children has been scrapped and workers will pay more tax to fund it. Do you think that’s fair?

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00:00I would much rather give most of my money I'm paying in tax to people and their kids.

00:04You could have kept it, I'll tell you the truth, yeah.

00:08I think it's a good thing, yeah, absolutely.

00:11I think there's enough child poverty.

00:15We're paying too much tax.

00:17I'm paying tax on my pension.

00:20Right, that's enough.

00:22I've worked all my life.

00:25Saying that, on the flip side, there's a reason I don't have kids right now.

00:28And the reason I don't have kids right now is because I can't afford them or justify using that.

00:32So I'm halfway between, if I was going to pay for anything out of the hundreds of pounds I give in tax and money,

00:37I would rather give more money to people with kids than the council,

00:41more people than the police service, more people than the mayors or people in politics.

00:45I don't blame the labour, because I'm a labour man.

00:50But I think they could have done a little bit better.

00:53You need to look at a child as something that is a part of you and you need to support it.