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while I rather NOT pay more tax
I'd rather pay more tax. Great public services cost money to deliver.
jellybaby-
While I wholeheartedly agree, currently I'd rather not line the pockets of tory donors with my taxes...
Paying more when 22bn is being pissed away on a failed system while I still have to donate to food charities to prevent ignored folk from starving stings a touch.
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I always vote left, but if I am perfectly honest it is nice to keep the £ myself. Especially with that awful pension system, the non existing benefits... if the tax rate would increase but health/benefits/pension would improve and bottom incomes would be raised, totally go for it!
I think higher taxes should happen, but a big problem is that people don't trust the government not to waste it. Not sure I do.
The alternative though is clearly that people just keep the money completely for themselves, so perhaps paying tax to a "wasteful" government is still better.
And of course people could give it all away, but in reality that means me donating more and others just buying a bigger house :)
lookitsluke
JWestland
Austerity was a political choice...it still is.
I appreciate lockdown cannot go on forever and there are economic trade offs.
But the UK low UC benefits, total disregard for disabled people, mental health care and council cuts when there was money again are all due to the Tories.
Not seeing much of a change there, of course we are stuck with that lot, but easy for them to make those calls as they all WFH (so do I, and while I rather NOT pay more tax you could argue a temp tax on me is more than fair) and I understand due to check and balances... wait what I am saying, the Belfast City Council has to audit every small charity grant while these feckers pissed hundreds of millions up the wall to their mates.
/rant but would be nice to see some alternative models rather than "austerity is just a fact of life" models...