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Originally Posted by martyh
well if you are paying that much tax either your accountant is crap or you are earning enough not to have worry about paying menial bills like gas, electric, council tax ,fuel ,like the rest of us lower class  |
Yay class warfare.
I don't have an accountant I'm afraid, I'm salaried. I'm in that rather large group in between the extremely rich people and the not so well off, the skilled, salaried worker who is entirely middle class, neither affluent nor poor.
I neither look up to those who are rich nor do I look down on those who have less money than I do. I would love to know why it's such a crime to do well that it merits the sarcasm.
Also be good to know why it's fine for me to pay more and more tax. It's my money, not the state's. Why should I spend my own time and money studying, improving myself, my own blood pressure working a damn stressful job and occasionally ridiculously long hours to hand all that money over so that I'm not better off than the 'lower classes' (your words)?
Is having some small measure of success such a crime that it must be punished with punitive taxation? What a great way to remove any incentive to try and excel, what a completely soulless, homogenous concept
I work for me and mine, it's not a part of the social contract that I spent my time and money on my career so that I could subsidise people who couldn't be bothered with school or arsed to go to college and learn new skills or are happy cruising between unskilled jobs while complaining about how little they are paid.
Happy to pay the tax for people to go to college, overjoyed to improve social mobility, absolutely resent paying taxes purely for wealth redistribution.