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Originally Posted by tweedle
How much of a low life are you? I pay as much as £250 in a single week in tax, an my wife more some weeks. An you tell us we should pay more whilst you steal money from the needy? You really help the case for the lefties.
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I see your point but we really should avoid quoting numbers regarding our respective tax bills.
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FWIW I have no issues with the taxes I pay but would prefer our welfare system to be far more contributory, and for our taxation system to be dramatically simplified and have the anomalies and various 'humps' in the progressive rates removed. Contribution based would get shot of at least some of the issues of generations of families living off welfare.
I'm very unhappy with the level of cuts being handed down by the government. It is doing some hideous things to my local area.
I dislike how much taxation in the UK is skewed to income rather than wealth, we should be taxing unproductive activities, not productive and gainful employment, more.
Tempted as I am to go through the past couple of pages and pick holes in contradictions and frankly extreme statements made I'll pass.
If all this makes me some 'socialist' who wants to steal other people's income and redistribute it so be it. I don't want a pay as you go state, I want a fair and reasonable one at both ends of the income scale. Increased equality can actually have a dramatic effect on the vast majority of incomes and outcomes.