Thread: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013
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Old 04-10-2010, 18:53   #87
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Re: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
And I don't earn as much as my friend who is a partner at E&Y, but I am not poor - you are playing with words, methinks, conflating "not as well off as" with "poorer".

btw, the Oxford Dictionary definition of poor is "lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society" - do you honestly believe someone earning £44k per year is poor?
I presume you understand the meaning of the term "comparative."
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