Tax TAx TAX!!!!!! Fuming at our government!

[Baldylovingbeard]

please try and convince me otherwise…..

What a joke this government are!!! ( UK)

Let’s just tax everyone who earns a bit of cash!!! Oh and while we’re at it… go on have loads more children it’s ok others will pay for them!!! Cutting the 2child benefit cap! If you decide to have multiple children you should be able to afford to provide for them. NOT expect others too!!!!! If you fall on hard times and you’ve worked and contributed to paying tax than you are within your rights to claim tax this is what benefits were made for, it’s not a means to not work, have more kids….etc!

Oh and if you work really hard and want to put some money by for you later days in life…. You’ll be taxed!

My situation:
Part time work, full time mum to 1 child. I work for myself and earn around 10k this money usually pays for things our daughter needs… clothes, clubs, any treats.
Husband works long hours, his under a lot of stress with his job, he has worked his way to and earns a very good salary 100k he gets taxed 60% you do the maths on that! We live in a 3 bed around £280k so nothing crazy but live within our means. We have one car! One holiday a year! Put money into savings! Pension! our daughter goes to one after school club. My husband got kicked out of home at 16…. He has worked with no help from family or friends and I believe he has worked very hard to get to where he is now. we are generous with charity’s and try our best to help out when we can if we can!

There are some careers that have limited wages due to restricted funding by the government. I admit that. Some are low paid because low skilled and easily replaceable. At some point, personal response.

No problem really.

Just think of it along the lines of the tax your DH pays, goes towards defence, the Foreign office, infrasructure, business regulators etc. All the things that go towards him being able to earn 100k a year.

Any tax you pay, can we say education, the arts ?

Mix and match however you want. Whatever each of you benefit from.

Benefits ? The tax the lefties and labour supporters pay fund that.

Regardless of whether they are "easily replaceable," our society would cease to function without them. We need people in low-paid, unskilled jobs. Their value to society is immeasurable, and they should be paid accordingly.

How are all the high-flying bankers getting to the office if the roads are not maintained, public transport is not running, no one is caring for their children and elderly parents, they cannot buy groceries, and the streets are piled high with waste?

All the exclamation marks in your posts are giving me a headache.

Maybe your husband needs to set some boundaries and not be working until midnight? Enjoy the flounce.

For some reason I picture it in terms of petrol station workers.

And no offence to them of course.

As the banker on the way to the bank fills his tank at 6 am, thinking about the high finance day ahead, the petrol station attendant might be on minimum wage, living in social housing, claiming income support of various sorts.

The government are basically subsidising both the petrol station owner, and the banker using it at 6 am.

Without the benefits system, the cost of living might be a lot higher.

So what do you think they should have done then?

Note on women's hour that the minimum wage increases will have a significant impact in raising women out of poverty due to their dominance in employment in the care sector.

Also "these wages tend to be spent in the real local economy" so should filter through to local businesses. Also with the 2 child cap removal the Rape Clause, where women had to prove their third or later child was the product of rape will no longer apply.

Interesting bit of polling on the Shambles that is Your Party: most are expecting it to be like the greens. Ppl are already taking the fact that Reeves took a potshot at their hypnoboobs leader yesterday as a sign that greens are having an impact on policy positions.

https://nitter.net/YouGov/status/1993975302008008741#m

And they are usually the 2nd in lots and lots of comfortable Tory shires where many posters here might be..

It's literally everything, even the things we don't think of, basic infrastructure like the power grid and internet is held up by low-paid, unskilled, and semi-skilled workers. Yes, there are people at the top earning massive amounts for very skilled jobs, but without the low-paid workers doing the grunt work, that infrastructure would collapse.

We'd be fucked within hours if all the low-paid employees downed tools.

The speed from which they went from low-skilled workers to heroic keyworkers to scroungers who deserve to starve makes my head spin.

WTF! Are you sure you should be posting here Dear, don't you think we should speak to your husband instead?

But there isn't an unlimited amount of higher paying jobs, so inherently they're 'taking' someone else's role and that person would need to take a lower paid role.

The way we have society requires that there are people in low paid roles, and as seen on this thread, when minimum wage goes up everyone is upset at how that'll put up prices and impact them.

How can we solve for that?

Immeasurable - I mean I would never say someone "worth" is their job or how much money they have.

But regarding income and salary. The level someone gets paid is usually down to the economics of it . Skill, demand for the skill..how many people can do it and the revenue the worker brings in.(Marginal revenue product I believe)

But regarding income and salary. The level someone gets paid is usually down to the economics of it . Skill, demand for the skill..how many people can do it and the revenue the worker brings in.(Marginal revenue product I believe).

When we had carers coming in to look after my parents, quite a few had gone into it after formerly having big careers in business or finance. They'd got to "that age" and been made redundant or gone bust and this was literally the only job going

The demand is based on how many people have the skill, not the demand or necessity for the actual role.

If all the supermarket staff walked out and all the hedge fund managers walked out at the same time, the demand for the supermarket staff to come back would be higher than for the hedge fund managers, particularly when you consider that AI can have a good crack at managing your hedge fund; it cannot stock your supermarket shelves.

I paid my fair share since I’ve worked from the age of 16!!!! And now because I have ONE child….. I can now only work part time.

Utter rubbish. Loads of parents work full time.

You seem very annoyed at your child

I doubt you were a net contributor at 16.

You can work full time with your ONE child, lots of people manage it. One of my team has THREE children and works 40hrs a week.

You’d rather just complain about the quantity of money your husband has. Own that, if it’s working for you.

Working full time with one child is easy.

Well, you're coming off as being a real treat on this thread. And why is it always bloody nails and fillers? 🙄How many people do you personally (and I mean personally, not 'Sandra down the road') know that live the sort of life you're describing here?

Seems a bit lazy if you ask me … I work FT with 2.

id imagine you’d feel wealthier if you worked FT like most

Blimey! Your housing costs must be astronomical. You have an income over 116k, no kids, one car, one holiday and yet can’t afford to put your heating on? You must consider moving before you have children, surely?

And maybe then her husband wouldn't feel compelled to work until midnight.

Although I suspect they could manage off a lot less and he is choosing to prioritise work over family.

Are your kids nursery age? For me it wasn’t worth it as the cost of nursery non- funded hours as soared to cope with the underfunding for the funded hours. For me it would have been £3k a month for two kids in nursery (south east so nurseries are well over 100 a day here)