Assume every tax rate except for the “personal allowance” was increased by 1% to fund free train travel.

Would you be in favour of this?

I’ve not done the math for this (though did look up some stats for a Scotland specific post, and it seems to be feasible: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/44818305). So for the UK it may require a lower or higher increase (and to be fair my Scotland “calculations” were very rough and likely entirely wrong). This is more just a question about whether people would be in favour of something like this in general.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    1 day ago

    If the UK government proposed to increase tax ON THE 1% and make trains free then of course I’d be in favour.

    The rest of us are paying our share already and not seeing the benefit of it.

    • NKBTN@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      10 hours ago

      If they raised CGT to be the same rate as Income Tax, that would achieve it.