Goddammit, just tax us

Tax us more. This Child Benefit thing is ridiculous. It's not as immediately horrific as what seems to be happening to Housing Benefit, which is really horrible, but it's silly and badly thought out and won't gain nearly enough to justify the damage it will do.

(We'll be fine; when we lose it, I will still have access to and partial control over household income, and none of it will suddenly disappear overnight, because neither of us is daft with money, though I might be a little obsessive about it. But plenty of women won't be.)