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This is what I was saying to seemingly the only Tory (there's plenty of ukip racists though) in Levenshulme on a local Facebook group the other day when he was all "why should I bother working for more than £80k when I'll just get taxed more?" firstly it's only on what you earn over that, so you still get more money, and secondly, any pay rises you get at that wage are unlikely to be 15p an hour like most people used to get when pay rises were a thing, and more like a few £k extra salary taking into account the fact you're on a higher tax band so will be worked around take home anyway.
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firstly it's only on what you earn over that, so you still get more money
I have a suspicion that there's a huge number of people who believe that if you earn £80,001 then you suddenly get higher tax on all of it and somehow end up with less to take home than if you earned £79,999. It's not like the Tory party go out of their way to dispel this myth.
I don't blame them particularly - tax is byzantine, not very interesting and I don't think anyone trusts that it's collected fairly.
I'm sure it should be possible to have a fairly high impact visual to show what the changes would mean to the individual, alongside the number of how many of those people there are in the UK, especially at the high end to see exactly how few people this would affect - for example, "if you earn £10m per year, you'll pay £x more tax. There are 1,000 of these people in the whole country, they will be responsible for building and maintaining 5 hospitals this year".
christianSpaceman
From a Twitter thread about the BBCQT chap: