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"Taxes"

People are annoying

They moan when taxes go up to help public services

They moan when they have low taxes but have crap public services

Labour lost the '92 election because the Tories whinged to 'The Sun' reading morons that they'd put up taxes... however Old Labour would do this to aid the country... but no the Tories won. Creating New Labour and now all parties are neither left nor right wing, just want to stay in power.

Or something like that.

*uni

(Just in case you were wondering what a 'unui' was?)

Your Honour wrote:
> I find it amusing that a number of people here who are commenting on
> taxes don't even pay any yet, because they are still in school/college
> etc.
>
> I wonder if their attitude will change when they have to start paying
> taxes, and they stop getting their dental treatment and opticians
> appointments for free etc etc.

I'm only commenting on taxes from an economic viewpoint (remember my unui? :D), and was simply saying how both polarised viewpoints - either equal income or equal tax, are not economically viable.

Personally, I don't overly mind the system as it is, but then agin I'm hoping that when I finish uni I'll have a fair bit left after taxes ;D

Oh, right. Sorry. Yeah, thats probably true. I'd like to think I'd keep my views, but I probably won't.

" You're at school, you can't comment on anything except from who's going out with who "

:P

I know what you mean though

My teeth are in perfect condition and never needed treatment and i've hardly caused the NHS any trouble... just saying like.

I didn't mean that.

I meant that when you are actually in the middle of something (ie paying taxes and paying for dentists etc), then you sometimes have a different view to when you are on the outside and looking in.

Of course, because people still in full-time education aren't sincere enough to keep views a couple of years...

I find it amusing that a number of people here who are commenting on taxes don't even pay any yet, because they are still in school/college etc.

I wonder if their attitude will change when they have to start paying taxes, and they stop getting their dental treatment and opticians appointments for free etc etc.

RM18 wrote:
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>
> So, what you're saying is a banker that earns £100,000 a year
> should have to pay the same tax as a single mother earning
> £12,500 a year working at a check out till in Woolworths? Do me
> a favour.

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Yup, I am. Here's a scenario for you. Banker has worked hard through school to get to Oxford uni, and worked hard there to get a high-paid job in London. Cost of living is high and he has to work hard, but he gets a nice wage and he deserves it. 16 year old girl couldn't care about school, mucks about with her bloke, gets pregnant. Spends the rest of her life scamming tax benefits and holding down a part time job at Woolworths because she's too lazy to do anything else.

Stryke wrote:
> Perfectly equal proportion of taxes for all. 1% to 99%, it makes no
> difference, as long as EVERYONE is charged the same, irrespective of
> earnings. It's fair.

Just as I don't agree with total re-distribution of income, I don't agree with that either.

So, what you're saying is a banker that earns £100,000 a year should have to pay the same tax as a single mother earning £12,500 a year working at a check out till in Woolworths? Do me a favour.

I think that the only way to slightly appease everyone is to keep the current system, but tinker with it so that the brackets are changed. I don't know what the best solution is, but I no it isn't uniform tax levels.

You made some points that show serious flaws in my idea, yes.

However the difference of someone who earns £20,000 being taxed 75% and someone who earns £20,000,000 is that the rich person can still live a much more than comfortable life or something.