Absolutely rinsed in this budget - almost £1k a year worse off.

Don’t complain. You have done your public service so that half a million people already welfare dependent who choose to have kids they cannot afford get a £5k a years additional final raise.

Honestly in despair at this government. On a very high level calc, we are so much worse off!

We both pay a lot into pensions, so the NI change is about £700 a year worse off.

We have an EV car, so based on our 4k a year mileage, it’s about £120 a year. (Although how it will be enforced I have no idea).

Stagnating tax thresholds, probably about £100 a year between us.

Council tax F house (4 bed end terrace, not a mansion, needs renovating). So risk of revaluation after having paid a fortune in stamp duty. We didn’t get first time buyer stamp duty relief because we bought about 2 years too early, and we moved before Covid so no relief there either. So overall we’ve paid about £30k in stamp duty already over our lifetime.

Weve already had the private school hit (which is a separate debate and we’ve accepted that) but wow, we are just being kicked on all sides.

We are classic ‘middle earners’ - earn about £70k each, but have mahoosive mortgage and pay over £2k a month in nursery fees already.

Every measure just seems to have a negative effect on our lifestyle, which is ‘comfortable’ but increasingly squeezed.

I get that but I don’t see why better off people should be seen as cash cows to fund a higher benefits bill. Scrapping the benefits cap so people can have more children and the state will pay for them all instead of being sensible with their choices. Stinging our young with university loan repayments far above inflation or mortgage rates. Giving pensioners the triple lock which we can’t afford. Making a life on benefits far more attractive than working in a modestly paid job. I honestly think people would accept more tax if there were decent roads, healthcare was appropriate for a major developed country and major projects happened on time and on budget rather than dragging on for years and costs ballooning. I’m ok-nearly a pensioner but God, I feel for my children who are working hard-for what?

I get that but I don’t see why better off people should be seen as cash cows to fund a higher benefits bill. Scrapping the benefits cap so people can have more children and the state will pay for them all instead of being sensible with their choices. Stinging our young with university loan repayments far above inflation or mortgage rates. Giving pensioners the triple lock which we can’t afford. Making a life on benefits far more attractive than working in a modestly paid job. I honestly think people would accept more tax if there were decent roads, healthcare was appropriate for a major developed country and major projects happened on time and on budget rather than dragging on for years and costs ballooning. I’m ok-nearly a pensioner but God, I feel for my children who are working hard-for what?

OP there are lots of us quietly reading your thread understanding exactly how you are feeling, and agreeing with you.

Obviously there are also lots of very noisy, presumably envious people here shouting at you, who want to give you a hard time about you and your DP working hard and being sensible with your money and pensions.

Ignore the histrionics in these replies. YANBU to feel the way you do.

I know of someone with 7 children and a motobility BMW.

You talk rubbish. Up until last year we had a household income of £180k. I could absolutely see that I was well off and privileged. I could see that many people worked much harder than me and were living in poverty and unable to escape it. I'd bought a house that allowed for variations in income / interest rates. Even on half the income we were on I am still happy to pay more NI/tax because it's the right thing to do. The country is in crisis and on track to going bust. You absolutely need to check your privilege from a fellow privileged person. It's not about attacking well off people it is about the total lack of awareness of some people.

It’s not though.

Well... there'll always be those who wriggle out of paying, but for the most part, it is a collective struggle. I don't know anyone who isn't at the moment.

‘Rinsed’. Hardly.

I know of someone with 7 children and a motobility BMW.

That bit jumped out at me too.

I'm a public sector worker so no beef on that from me but every time council tax goes up I remind myself it pays me a decent wage and very good pension. Would be absolutely wrong for me to moan about it.

There are kids at my son’s school who don’t have weather appropriate shoes. So yes, I’m happy to pay more.

All in it together? Don’t make me 😆

Don’t complain. You have done your public service so that half a million people already welfare dependent who choose to have kids they cannot afford get a £5k a years additional final raise.

There are kids at my son’s school who don’t have weather appropriate shoes. So yes, I’m happy to pay more.

They shouldn’t feel thankful for working hard and moving up the career ladder. These jobs do not (mostly) land in people’s laps. Most would require a degree of skill and qualifications, things that most people can acquire themselves. Luck very rarely plays a part