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Choose your own adventure time:
You earn 25K per year
How do you pay for a deposit?
What house can you afford?
Where is it?
Where is your job?
What are your costs to travel to work?
Chalfie-
Thanks, do I need to say yet again that I don't disagree with raising tax above 80k? I'm well aware that things are really tough for lots of people (I've been there myself and have worked in jobs for far less than that).
But just repeating that lots of people have it worse, although true, isn't engaging with either (a) why even people with large incomes feel they are struggling so don't vote for more tax, or (b) deal with the fact that there is a huge disparity between income and wealth (and how both are taxed).
andyfallsoff
It's not true that "no one can buy a house anywhere". People own those houses that are worth a tonne - that's just capital, not income, wealth.
I'm not saying people earning 80k are struggling or refuting the point about higher tax. But to say that housing costs are a separate issue to wealth and redistributive taxes is not true. It's all part of the picture about who we should view as wealthy and how we should ask for a fair share from them.