It is a national scandal that teachers, doctors and others earning fairly ordinary salaries can face marginal tax rates of more than 60%, and sometimes approaching 80%. It’s inequitable and holds back…
I can guarantee if this is posted to reddit it will be reply after reply of people going “what you don’t understand is, £100,000 is the hardest wage to live on!”.
Ok then mate, swapsies. You can have my 28k and we’ll find out.
Yeah, and joined with a few:
“You don’t understand, I was offered some more paid hours at work, but with the extra taxes at that income threshold, I’d only be working for £35 an hour, which is probably below minimum wage, as far as I’m aware. My life is so hard”.
Narrator: The minimum wage was actually £12.21 for people over 21 years of age.
I can guarantee if this is posted to reddit it will be reply after reply of people going “what you don’t understand is, £100,000 is the hardest wage to live on!”.
Ok then mate, swapsies. You can have my 28k and we’ll find out.
Yeah, and joined with a few:
“You don’t understand, I was offered some more paid hours at work, but with the extra taxes at that income threshold, I’d only be working for £35 an hour, which is probably below minimum wage, as far as I’m aware. My life is so hard”.
Narrator: The minimum wage was actually £12.21 for people over 21 years of age.