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GoatandTricycle
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Thanks - that's pretty much it, I quite like it. Shove those figures down peoples throats every single time tax is mentioned.
"Do you earn £80k? In which case we're going to charge you £5 a year extra. However, we're expecting most of our specnding to be funded by 1,000 people in this country who don't pay their way.
christianSpaceman
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".