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But some are unable to ever earn a large amount so would pay the same % tax as a big earner, with huge disposable icome.
There would then be no incentive to work at all due to the benefit sytem.
Once you've worked out the perfect system, apply to be an MP and become chancellor . Then watch as you get ripped apart for being wrong.
There is no perfect system.
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I can remember when I was at school a few girls were talking about their plans for when they leave, it was along the lines of:
1. Get a bloke.
2. Get pregnant.
3. Get council house.
4. Get rid of bloke.
5. Never have to work again and not be stuck with just one bloke.
They even knew what benefits they could get, how much they would get and what estates they were likely to live on.
For the ones that were already pregnant simply insert a young mothers hostel before 1.
It's tragic for the kids.
1. Get a bloke.
2. Get pregnant.
3. Get council house.
4. Get rid of bloke.
5. Never have to work again and not be stuck with just one bloke.
They even knew what benefits they could get, how much they would get and what estates they were likely to live on.
For the ones that were already pregnant simply insert a young mothers hostel before 1.
It's tragic for the kids.
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I can remember when I was at school a few girls were talking about their plans for when they leave, it was along the lines of:
1. Get a bloke.
2. Get pregnant.
3. Get council house.
4. Get rid of bloke.
5. Never have to work again and not be stuck with just one bloke.
They even knew what benefits they could get, how much they would get and what estates they were likely to live on.
For the ones that were already pregnant simply insert a young mothers hostel before 1.
It's tragic for the kids.
1. Get a bloke.
2. Get pregnant.
3. Get council house.
4. Get rid of bloke.
5. Never have to work again and not be stuck with just one bloke.
They even knew what benefits they could get, how much they would get and what estates they were likely to live on.
For the ones that were already pregnant simply insert a young mothers hostel before 1.
It's tragic for the kids.
No industrious person would consider wallowing in that sort of life. Human nature provides us with a desire to 'do better', thankfully.
I've met 1000s of people who live this way and can't see a single plus point in the way they live. They have nothing, live on nothing and exist in a world of ****.
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£15000 p/a after 27% tax leaves only £11811
£300000 p/a after 27% tax leaves £236220
If you're on 15k minus tax, you have under £1000 a month to spend on whatever you choose.
If you're on 300k minus tax you still have over £19000 a month to spend on whatever you choose.
If the government chose to tax lower earners at 10% it would leave someone on a salary of £15k, they would have £1136 a month to pay for everything.
If the higher earners make up the difference in this theoretical situation, then the 17% discounted from low earners, added to the high earners, would leave high earners paying 44%.
Someone earning 300k a year would, after paying 44% tax, still take over £208,000. That would leave over £17k a month to pay for whatever they wanted. That monthly pay os still more than the gross annual salary of the lower earner in this theoretical situation.
The point is, Phil, that £1,136 per month won't go as far as £17,000 a month, so surely it is actually fair to everyone that higher earners pay more.
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Argument?
Surely it's obvious?
Taxes are higher for higher earners and buyers of higher priced properties because they can afford to pay it. It's pretty straight forward.
The more you can afford, the more you put into the 'pot'.
I don't agree with the stamp duty levels, but agree that high earners should put more into the mix. But I don't agree with the benefit system.
It's complex. I pay far more tax than I think I should and think it is wasted on scrounging wasters.
How't that?
Surely it's obvious?
Taxes are higher for higher earners and buyers of higher priced properties because they can afford to pay it. It's pretty straight forward.
The more you can afford, the more you put into the 'pot'.
I don't agree with the stamp duty levels, but agree that high earners should put more into the mix. But I don't agree with the benefit system.
It's complex. I pay far more tax than I think I should and think it is wasted on scrounging wasters.
How't that?
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Surely you can see why low earner should pay less tax as a percentage of their earnings.
As Scoobywont so excellently demonstrated, if you have a flat tax rate, it is the lowest earners that are hardest hit - When you have, say an income of £1200 a month, then a few hundred pounds a month makes all the difference.
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High earners would still put more money in the pot if based on a fixed %age deduction I don't see the sliding scale argument at all. You earn £100 so contribute £27, you earn £1m so contribute £270k.
Perhaps I'll try for that MP position after all ...
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Perhaps I'll try for that MP position after all ...
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The country would collapse and there would be mass unrest
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If you have ever wondered why you often can't get milk delivered it's because nobody can work as a milk man for so little money.
It's just a single example of the hundreds of jobs that would earn so little that they're not worth doing.
Such jobs really need a low rage of tax etc.
It's just a single example of the hundreds of jobs that would earn so little that they're not worth doing.
Such jobs really need a low rage of tax etc.
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But what you are advocating is high earners paying less tax than they do currently at the direct expense of low earners.
You'll have to stand as an independant, or one of the fringe parties - None of the mainstream parties will touch a flat tax rate policy with a barge pole.
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If you have ever wondered why you often can't get milk delivered it's because nobody can work as a milk man for so little money.
It's just a single example of the hundreds of jobs that would earn so little that they're not worth doing.
Such jobs really need a low rage of tax etc.
It's just a single example of the hundreds of jobs that would earn so little that they're not worth doing.
Such jobs really need a low rage of tax etc.
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Thats just one example, there are probably hundreds of jobs like it that are made less worth while by tax.
Who knows... you could even end up having to go to Tesco's to get rid of your rubbish, while you're getting milk.
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Yes that is true, but for someone who is only on say £15k or less, 27% would leave them with very little, with similar bills to pay as someone earning way more than that.
Of course someone on £300k would still be paying more, in terms of amount, but relatively they would be less affected by that %/amount, than someone 'worse off'.
I hope I'm making some sense here, I know what I mean though, even if nobody else does.
Of course someone on £300k would still be paying more, in terms of amount, but relatively they would be less affected by that %/amount, than someone 'worse off'.
I hope I'm making some sense here, I know what I mean though, even if nobody else does.
%age rates allow people to payy the same % back in tax relitive to what they earn.
someone on £15k a year doesn't live the life style as someone on £300k a year.
unless they live on the street and don't spend.
the car a £15k wage buys might be a Focus, the £300k a wage buys might be a Bentley, the bentley costs more to run than the focus, so more of the £300k is spent on that than the person with the focus.
Houses the same.
just cus you do well why should you be penalises to pay more out?
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There are plenty of expenses which are pretty much the same for everyone, though - food, water, fuel spring to mind - which would dominate your outgoings if you were on £15k, but which would be insignificant to someone on £300k.
A greater proportion of that £300k is 'spare', in that it's not required to pay for essentials. Hence the higher marginal rate.
A greater proportion of that £300k is 'spare', in that it's not required to pay for essentials. Hence the higher marginal rate.
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But surely you knew all that before you decided to start a family?
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chavs and young girls and the lower 'classes' and sit on my back side everything gets given to me... also illegal visitors & immigrants to keep having kids as its then allows them not to work and put into 'the pot' but allows them to keep taking outta the pot?
just to me the government's always helping (with tax credits etc etc and everything else they get given) to this sector of society.
where as hard working 'working+middle sector' class.. seem to miss out on the helping hand outs.
just to me the government's always helping (with tax credits etc etc and everything else they get given) to this sector of society.
where as hard working 'working+middle sector' class.. seem to miss out on the helping hand outs.
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That's why milkmen aren't so common, the money to pay them a decent wage isn't there to be given, a lower tax level for low paid jobs would make a lot of jobs more worth while.
Thats just one example, there are probably hundreds of jobs like it that are made less worth while by tax.
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Thats just one example, there are probably hundreds of jobs like it that are made less worth while by tax.
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We have relatively low taxation rates here in the UK so we should count ourselves lucky.
I doubt there is anyone on here that earns enough to pay a genuine 40% out of their income in direct taxation.
Think about it before you jump in head first
Look at other countries, Netherlands, Norway etc, we pay far less than what they do.
I agree with the 45% on the super rich, in reality with pension contributions, it would be around a £165k cap
I doubt there is anyone on here that earns enough to pay a genuine 40% out of their income in direct taxation.
Think about it before you jump in head first
Look at other countries, Netherlands, Norway etc, we pay far less than what they do.
I agree with the 45% on the super rich, in reality with pension contributions, it would be around a £165k cap
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The flat rate for everyone argument falls down as soon as you look at non variables. The price of gas, the price of electric, the price of bread. If you make 1200 a month after tax and NI you have about 900 left then feeding a family of 4 for 300 a month is a major deal.
If you make 20k a month, after take and NI you have about 15k then 300 a month to feed your family is not a big deal.
Higher tax rates are not a punishment for doing well, its simply putting back into the economy a percentage of what the country has enabled you to take out.
As for milkman, out of principle we still have milk delivered as we can afford the £7 a week for our 5 pints of milk and 3 pints or orange juice, And by using a service like this can only help, albeit a tiny amount, to bolster the economy.
If you make 20k a month, after take and NI you have about 15k then 300 a month to feed your family is not a big deal.
Higher tax rates are not a punishment for doing well, its simply putting back into the economy a percentage of what the country has enabled you to take out.
As for milkman, out of principle we still have milk delivered as we can afford the £7 a week for our 5 pints of milk and 3 pints or orange juice, And by using a service like this can only help, albeit a tiny amount, to bolster the economy.
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Earn enough to pay higher rate tax and chances are you're getting no benefits or tax credits, have private health cover so place a below average demand on the NHS, don't require the state to provide you with a home...
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I couldnt agree more that the benefit system is ludicrous in this country. And infact you have highlighted why talking about tax rates in isolation is a nonsense.
In an ideal world we all just pay a contribution, just what we could afford and everyone would have food on the table and a roof over there head, however this is the ideal and as we all know when we hear stories of people that have babies to get council flats, some people are not ideal.
This is a bit to thought consuming for me at 10:12 on a Wednesday morning... Maybe we should all elect a government that could sort it for us
In an ideal world we all just pay a contribution, just what we could afford and everyone would have food on the table and a roof over there head, however this is the ideal and as we all know when we hear stories of people that have babies to get council flats, some people are not ideal.
This is a bit to thought consuming for me at 10:12 on a Wednesday morning... Maybe we should all elect a government that could sort it for us
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..and while we are on the subject, why does childcare cost so bloody much, I thought they are trying to encourage people to go back to work?
How the hell people afford it even with vouchers and grants is amazing.
How the hell people afford it even with vouchers and grants is amazing.