This country would be great …….
The Daily Mail doing what they do best - driving division and appealing to the selfish.
Also, of course, supporting Zahawi
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What a horrendous headline, secondary headline and article.
Maybe if they paid the lowest earners more, supported them more so they could work or had a health system which helped them be fit enough to work, then this would not be the case. They would earn more, and spend it, so they pay more tax on earnings. This way more money changes hands, more often, and gets taxed again and again, and everyone lower level is better off, and the top notice zero difference.
A lot (but not all) of the very wealthy make money by exploiting the lowest paid, or gain it from someone who did. The ones who don't exploit, are the ones who don't mind paying the tax, most of them were once in a much less fortunate position themselves. The only ones who hate it, are the ones who have never been there.
Interesting that they intentionally don't mention that a lot of old/ rich pensioners, who don't have to work are probably included in these figures. The reason they're not mentioned is that they're core voters for the side these rags support.
If the top 1% didn't dodge tax, non-dom status was removed and we actually taxed massive companies moving money offshore, then the next top 9% wouldn't have to pay as much, maybe tell them that?
To get in the top 10% you "only" need to earn 60k, these people are well off, but not stinking rich, and probably still rely on state healthcare and the likes. They're not so much the problem, it's the top 2%, Top 1% and top 0.1% etc. Only the top 5% probably get any value by voting Tory, yet the tories and these rags like to pretend that it's anyone earning over 30k.
What is interesting is that 60% earn less than 30k, and 80% less than 40k. Makes you wonder why the Tories get so many votes, oh, that's it, it's these rags trying to bend people's minds who might not have the best grasp on numbers, or those who don't look at the detail.