Should the highest rate of income tax be raised to 50%

It was still a better decade then the 80's

The income tax rate for top earners are too low in my opinion. At one point during the 1970's, the top rate of income tax was 97%.

So how come your not standing by your point??
Is it because all the figures stack up against your statement?

I still believe in what i said earlier. I'm not bothered in developing the point further

. I'm not bothered in developing the point further

. I'm not bothered

It's too high in my opinion, it used to be 10%.

Also it wasn't 97% in the 70s, it was 83% with a 15% surcharge on "investment income" and funnily enough the country experienced a brain drain and the tax didn't raise much money. I'll also present to you this chart (link in "this"

I'm sure you can spot a trend in there.

Also , I think you go need to learn some economics my friends. Take a look at the laffer curve.

Only if the Government can actually put it to good use

Could use it to pay teachers.

Could use it to pay teachers.

She said a good use.

She is a hero for middle class greedy pigs. She done the working class no favours. She created the welfare culture

Thatcher created welfare culture?

To believe that one has to assume that the working class are so dense, that they are unable to work it out that living on benefits is a **** life...........

Newsflash, people who choose to live off benefits are not the working class,

They are the idle class and the actual working class despise them.

You're right, I think you misunderstood me, what I meant is Thatcher made 3 million unemployed, and created a benefit culture in some areas of the country.

Thatcher created welfare culture?

To believe that one has to assume that the working class are so dense, that they are unable to work it out that living on benefits is a **** life...........

Newsflash, people who choose to live off benefits are not the working class,

They are the idle class and the actual working class despise them.

You're right, I think you misunderstood me, what I meant is Thatcher made 3 million unemployed, and created a benefit culture in some areas of the country.

Nonsense i'm afraid.

Any person who decides* that living off benefits is an option is, by definition not working class.

They are parasites.

* Please note that word.

that's true, but for some there are no jobs to go to

Indeed it is, and that is why i highlighted my use of the word decides.

There have been periods in my life when work was hard to come by,mercifully few and far between so i know how hard it can be.

However, the thought of living off benefits never entered my head.

To suggest that Thatcher somehow turned decent hard working people into parasites happy to live off benefits is ridiculous.

I know it might sound absurd, but the extent to which Thatcher ruined manufacturing and industry is quite severe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOqOLZhemc