And is it best not to try for improvements?
Multinational forced to pay some tax
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And is it best not to try for improvements?
So, a man who is at least 72 years old earning £200k. Are there many of those about?Wrong.
Additional State Pension
Additional State Pension, also known as the State Second Pension or SERPS, is extra money on top of your basic State Pension.www.gov.uk
Being rich is a special favour
- you can buy your own home, so your mortgage payments contribute to growing your own asset
if you are poor, you have to pay rent…. the pays the landlords mortgage contributing to his or her own assetd
if you are rich you can afford solar panels and lots of insulation to reduce your heating bills
Of course it's best to try and improve things in our society and in many ways things have improved compared to decades/centuries ago, significantly so in certain aspects. However my post relates to the core underlying structure of our society, human traits and the undeniable fact this won't dramatically change.
Utopia ain't coming folks ...
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I have a problem with people who don't pay much tax, being obsessed about how much tax other people should pay, while happily using their ISA etc options.
give me a pick of 5 people in the category you describe and I will find a way for them to earn more money.
You for one
I wish. (The £200k, not the 72 years old!).You for one
Speak up, I can’t hear you.
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Even those who are higher earners, not just the rich, benefit the most but complain the most too.
They should try living on a lot less and then think about tax
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But it could be made a lot fairer and still have the divide
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Here's 1 category (lots of people in it).
Working full time, possibly 2 jobs, getting benefits because the Government agrees they don't earn enough, renting (making somebody else much better off) because they can't get a mortgage. But still paying tax (every penny that qualifies because they have no way of avoiding it).
An NVQ qualified care worker with children
A qualified nurse in a rented property.
A single parent teacher in a rented property
A person had to stop work due to an illness and is now waiting for an NHS operation, is currently on benefits and can’t afford to heat the house
In the true sense of the word, the world has never and will never be 'fair' for everyone whether referring to taxes or anything else. It becomes a cyclical debate, on taxes the top earners will assert they contribute more than their fare share to the pot, middle earners will assert they get taxed too much, lower earners most likely asserting the same. I'm using a broad brush of course. Politicians will assert taxing the (genuinely) rich more will lead to them not investing in business and the economy. etc etc.
A lot of the right things are said by politicians and business, however the actions thereafter rarely live up to the rhetoric.
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I note you avoided answering this:
“I do have a problem with lower earners not being able to afford enough heat and enough food”
I presume you didn’t answer as you don’t have a problem with it