£100000 is only £65000 after taxes

Why should non-wealthy people only pay 20% then? It's just unfair to people who have worked hard.

So £65,000 isnt enough for you?

You know what I could do with £65,000 a year? You know how happy that would make me?

Bloody hell, people love complaining. You'd be making so so much more money than most people could ever dream of making and still you'd want more. I'd put in any amount of effort to earn that much but it's probably never gonna happen for me.

So what exactly is this hard work you speak of? Sitting in a comfy office typing stuff into a computer and firing people when theyre not making you enough money? Try working in a physical labour job. Some of the guys I've worked with in my current job are only in their 40's and they struggle to sit down to rest the work takes that much out of them. Coming in at 2am to feed their families. And they're on minimum wage. But no, my heart bleeds for the poor rich people who have to wait a little while longer before they can buy their Lamborghini. Must be so difficult.

Why don't you learn to appreciate what you do have?

Because that's now how someone succeeds.

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A lack of appreciation for what one has is not a necessary condition for success.

If you earn £100000 a year

True, but complacency is a very real phenomenon.

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If you earn £100000 a year, your take-home pay is only £65467 after income tax and national insurance. So you literally lose more than a third of your income to the government. Surely this is really unfair to those who have worked really hard. I would much prefer it if everyone just paid 20% of their income in tax

Sure, someone might earn £100,000 per year now they're working. But no one springs out of the womb earning 100 grand, do they?

What paid for them to be born without charges? What paid for their education? The policing of their communities to allow them to go to school in peace? What will pay for them if they're sick and can't work anymore? What will pay for their insane medical bills when they get older and can't work? What will pay for their pension?

The fact is educated, healthy employees don't just spring out of nowhere, they are grown. Grown off the sweat of the people that come before them and the people that come after them. When you pay for your taxes, you're paying for the education of the people who will grow up to fund your pension and you're paying for the pension of the people that funded your health, education and stability whilst you were growing up.


Now, one might argue about the top rate of tax being too high, maybe they should keep £75,000, maybe they should keep £55,000 but, in general, the principle of taxation is one of investment in future generation and protection for past ones.

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So £65,000 isnt enough for you?

You know what I could do with £65,000 a year? You know how happy that would make me?

Bloody hell, people love complaining. You'd be making so so much more money than most people could ever dream of making and still you'd want more. I'd put in any amount of effort to earn that much but it's probably never gonna happen for me.

So what exactly is this hard work you speak of? Sitting in a comfy office typing stuff into a computer and firing people when theyre not making you enough money? Try working in a physical labour job. Some of the guys I've worked with in my current job are only in their 40's and they struggle to sit down to rest the work takes that much out of them. Coming in at 2am to feed their families. And they're on minimum wage. But no, my heart bleeds for the poor rich people who have to wait a little while longer before they can buy their Lamborghini. Must be so difficult.

Why don't you learn to appreciate what you do have?

I'm not saying you dont work hard but chances are they probably worked harder to get to that job than you did yours. Nobody comes in at 2am thats utter *******s as well.

You're totally wrong that nobody comes home from work at 2am. As a matter of fact, many high and low income earners do exactly that.

Another one: if you earn £400000, your take home pay is actually only £222000.

I'm not saying you dont work hard but chances are they probably worked harder to get to that job than you did yours. Nobody comes in at 2am thats utter *******s as well.