POLL: Should people who retake year 12 still get EMA?

Why don't the government fund the school trips for children who are from families who cannot afford to pay?

You see our point - most people who receive EMA are no where near as sensible as you and and several I know would never go on a school trip; why would they 'waste' the money they get for free when it could be spent on alcohol, cigarettes, weed and petrol - or so they assure me.

God it angers me so much - I'd happily see them sleeping rough and eating out of bins any day.

No i wont ******* get over it.

Because when im older im not going to be forced to pay excessive amounts of tax, becasue some people want a laptop, and receive pay for an education for which ONLY they benefit from! Either it changes, or i will leave, and take my high salary and tax too! where would this country be without the wealth creators, for which these people who receive EMA think its their right to sponge off? Becasue the rich are privelidged and they are not. The rich are ony privelidged with one thing, and that is being hard workers. If only the working class new what that was.

You act like you don't have any of these things yourself. A laptop is important for many people to study - if they needed it, then why can't they use their money for it? You seriously need to open your eyes to the world and see that there are people worse off than you, but are no worse than you and so deserve to be given the same extra treatment that you have been given by having a well off family.

You have to be taking the piss!! There are computers at school and the library not too mention these other things...damn what are they called.... oh yeh books, paper and pens.

A laptop! You used other people's money so you could buy a laptop! Does that not make you feel even slightly guilty? I htink if your fair, you would admit that you haven't earned that money! Why should you be able to use other people's hard earned money to fund your own luxuries such as a trip to africa and a laptop!

It's to help with studying, that's what it's there for. I probably wouldn't have internet if it wasn't for me getting EMA.

And by getting EMA isn't people 'stealing' money from other people. Money from tax goes into all sorts of things, the NHS, education, benefits, they aren't all stealing your money.

Well, people who take benefits are stealing.

Well most of the people going are taxpayers themselves, I don't know everyones occupations but its surprising the amount you can fundraise. All I'm saying is, getting EMA has allowed me to spend my wages on doing this rather than using it to pay for stuff at school. Oh, and it's not exactly a holiday.

Ok, maybe there are some hard-working people who'd never be able to afford it (maybe EMA equivalent would be subsidising their living costs or something), but whose to know if some of those minimum wage workers would have got better jobs because they got to stay on at school if EMA had been around for them?

Well your first point is actaully a complete lie. teh parents dont pay a penny. I quote from the website "claiming EMA wont affect you parents benefits, tax or wages".Ok i will refer to them as less well-off people: it doesn't make it a doctors responsibility to pay for a teenager to just turn up at school. School doesn't cost anything, people should't receive a slary for turning up. Why shouild i not receive EMA, when my paretns pay more tax than the people who do receive it?

Right, so, I'm guessing you have a computer/laptop, so you don't have to go out of your way to use it. People who don't have one will then have to trek over to a library - where in many they can only use it in hour slots - or stay in at school, where they may have to bring in extra resources for studying - say, a project for example. Why should these people have to go to all of this extra effort just because they don't have as much money to their name as you??

No i wont ******* get over it.

Because when im older im not going to be forced to pay excessive amounts of tax, becasue some people want a laptop, and receive pay for an education for which ONLY they benefit from! Either it changes, or i will leave, and take my high salary and tax too! where would this country be without the wealth creators, for which these people who receive EMA think its their right to sponge off? Becasue the rich are privelidged and they are not. The rich are ony privelidged with one thing, and that is being hard workers. If only the working class new what that was.

Eh its something called effort. Why should everything be so easy in life? This just encourages state dependency which will be a drain for the rest of their lives.

And i do this, and my parents are reasonably comfortable money wise.

woow u seem to show interest in gaining EMA ...ask ur daddy to give u pocket money as u, an arrogant idiot, thinks that EMA shouldnt exist.
I came from germany, and as a fact germans who are very intelligent dont seem to go into higher education (university level) due to money problem. Having the opportunity to finance some1's education is amazing AND will pay the country back.

As a conclusion shut up

Right, so, I'm guessing you have a computer/laptop, so you don't have to go out of your way to use it. People who don't have one will then have to trek over to a library - where in many they can only use it in hour slots - or stay in at school, where they may have to bring in extra resources for studying - say, a project for example. Why should these people have to go to all of this extra effort just because they don't have as much money to their name as you??

"working class", that must be the most ironic term in the english language. Where do you plan to go to? South Korea/ Canada?

Well your first point is actaully a complete lie. teh parents dont pay a penny. I quote from the website "claiming EMA wont affect you parents benefits, tax or wages".

Ok i will refer to them as less well-off people: it doesn't make it a doctors responsibility to pay for a teenager to just turn up at school. School doesn't cost anything, people should't receive a slary for turning up. Why shouild i not receive EMA, when my paretns pay more tax than the people who do receive it?