Should rich people pay more income tax?

Yes, in addition to a wealth tax and land value tax.

Honestly I think this country punishes people for being successful, imagine working hard to earn a lot of money and then having half of it taken away by the government

Yes.

Anyone who says otherwise clearly hasn't experienced poverty/stashes their money overseas.

Yes, in addition to a wealth tax and land value tax.

No, because laws should apply to all people equally, and excessive levels of taxation don't really increase government revenue but rather reduce it anyway.

Yes rich people should pay more tax as they have more money that they can afford to give to improving the country.

Simple question. As of now there's a basic rate o 20% on the first £32,010 of income. This is followed by a rate of 40% on income above £32,010 and below £150,001. Anything above £150,000 has a tax rate of 45%. Some are of the opinion that income tax for the rich should be increased even more, some say it should be lowered so that every one pays the same percentage of income tax. I, myself, have an undecided opinion. So what do you guys think?

Nah, imagine earning 60k and only taking 30k home give or take. Daylight robbery. I've only really begun to appreciate this after recently obtaining an actual salary. Not to mention while it sounds great on paper it doesn't seem to improve the distribution of wealth, at least nothing that is significantly felt- now if some of it was say going to subsidise an increase in national wage then yes I'd be all for it (hypothetically speaking, I'm not saying that would be a sustainable policy). Though I suppose you could argue that you don't know how significant it is until you lose it.

Ideally the aim should be to have more people on higher income brackets then to simply raise the levels of certain brackets. It's like when people complain that train drivers make so much money, but really they're only doing that because they're bitter they don't make anywhere near that or feel the benefits of a decent union. If they too had those privileges I'm sure they would be whistling a different tune.

Wealth taxes are one of the worst kinds of taxes which exist; they have horrible effects for an economy.

I do support an LVT, however. They're highly efficient and highly progressive. Really, in the grand scheme of things, we ought to move away from taxing income and towards a progressive consumption tax.

Corporation tax and capital gains tax, however, should be abolished outright.

A moderately progressive tax system is the way to go. All we need to do is ensure tax avoidance/evasion is made impossible.

While taxing consumption is a great way to raise tax revenue for government, taxing aggregate demand is also explicitly a tax on jobs and growth.

Personally i don't see any problem with taxing profits

VAT is not progressive.

What? Consumption taxes are so good precisely because of the low deadweight loss relative to other forms of taxation. If if there were some negative impact on aggregate demand due to the tax, monetary policy could quite easily compensate.

You can't tax businesses; businesses don't own chequebooks or make an income. Corporation taxes are highly regressive and mostly fall on long-run labour.