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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Not true. It makes me feel really demoralised when I see how much tax I pay......especially when it's proportionally more than a lot of other people, just because I manage to earn more money. It makes me feel like the govt is only there to take from me and give me bugger all back.
(Then the council takes their pound of flesh, both private and business rates (don't get me started))
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That's usually the way income tax works. It's not uncommon for there to be increasing rates of tax up the pay scale. It's difficult to go to one rate that can be applied to all, you either tax those on low incomes too much or those on high incomes too little. Those on higher incomes will pay more because they are judged to be able to afford to do so, they are not 'scraping' by the same was as a family on £15,000 will be. It makes sense to reduce the tax burden on those on lower incomes first, it strikes me as basic decency.
That's not to say those on higher incomes are living the high life and don't also struggle nor that it's a perfect system but there doesn't seem to be an obvious alternative.