What do you do for a living? photo gallery of preteen girls in underwear SIR – Tax breaks for less well-off married couples are to be welcomed, but if the Tories really wanted to help the lower paid, they would exempt people on the minimum wage from tax altogether. This, combined with more stringent benefits regulations, would help to give unemployed people a real incentive to find work. It would be largely self-financing, with lower overall welfare bills, lower immigration and more pay going back into the economy.