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I would like to share my thoughts on the effects of the 'Bedroom Tax' which has been much written about in the Crawley News.

We lower classes are responsible for our actions, but we are not responsible for our place in the world, others invisible to us do that. We know they are not seeking our best interests, hence, in order for us to be alive, we have to pay, and pay, and the pay some more. By electing a political party we vote for, it is just a change of face, a change of colour from blue to red, red to blue and at present blue to yellow to change back to red. In its present form I don't feel any democracy, especially with the 'Bedroom Tax', or as someone called it 'the children can't leave home tax'.

I see giant corporations managing in many different ways to not pay tax in this country but they are allowed to make profit just same. I see 'us' those already carrying economic and monetary enslavement as heavy baggage everywhere we go, increasingly having no loopholes to avoid tax or payments.

We get taken to court immediately with hefty fines for our cheek if we try to dodge even a small tax payment. Or if we fall behind with a mortgage, our home is threatened by the bankers. Our political system seems based on commerce and our human experience has been reduced to commerce. A commerce based system disregards people, as each person is now a commodity forced on a treadmill to produce even more goods. If our local council can only view things from a commerce perspective then the hardship will increase.

Because of the limited empathy shown, limited unity grows, destroying our communities. This system was designed to serve the people and not destroy the people, so something has gone very wrong over the years. This commercially based reality is bogging down my neighbours, family and people in general. I see them all at the point of despair with grim expressions.

It is clear what is happing and we as people, divided as we are need the council to revise this Governmental oppression we are seeing. Everything we do is based on commerce as if this is the glue to hold life together, to purchase stuff that will inevitable become toxic rubbish to dump on our precious planet over and over again and again. We have to move away from constantly viewing everything from an economic viewpoint and remember people and families and how life is actually free.

Shelter is free, trees grow for free, food grows for free and life is born and created for free.

So why do we have to pay to be alive?

I thought our Government officials were nothing more than figures elected on trust, making them public trustees to work in servitude towards society.  We need the common unity to be put back in to our community, we are experiencing burglaries more frequently because of poverty. Poverty is a cruel torture a community can have forced upon it, affecting everyone like a disease within the community.

The corporate world and the state of hardship to me is clear testament to the wilful and blatant profiteering and breaches of trust that are being shown by people in power. We have an M P called Henry Smith who voted for an increase in student fees and this is the reason why both my daughters are not going to university.

He voted for the Welfare Reform Act 2012 which because of austerity measures means cutbacks, yet we the people affected by these cut backs bailed out the rich bankers.

It doesn't make any sense unless commerce means more than humanity and communities are filled with expendable individuals seen as commodities. Now our communities are being hit with an aggressive bedroom tax and benefits being cut as a financial depression gets smashed upon us. Our Government should take care of the poor and vulnerable and not fragment them further with insecurities.

Oppose the 'Bedroom Tax'.

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