RWB wrote:
Are you suggesting Rodders is in the richest 1%? Surely not. Also completely off topic but the richest 1% in the UK contribute 28% of the total income tax collected.
No - but it's a mindset.
And of course they do - they earn the most money; it's a statement of the bleedin obvious that they contribute more.
In fact, the poorest 10% of households pay around 42% of their income in combined taxation, whereas the wealthiest 10% pay only around 30%; I guess that's because the average joe can't employ a tax avoidance specialist, ask his employer to pay him dividends instead of salary, funnel his income through offshore vehicles or beneficial trusts, transfer his taxable assets to his children or spouse, or any of the other countless ways that wealth inequality is enabled by the system we currently operate - by wealthy people, for the benefit of wealthy people.
In short - the little guy always gets screwed over - which is exactly what's happening with the whole NM debacle; which is a neat segue to being back on topic, so I won't get sent to the gulag.