How are you planning to vote if you earn over £80,000

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Just wondering the above really.
I can't stand the conservatives and always assumed I would vote Labour in this election, however with the tax increase over £80k I feel I'd be shooting myself in the foot a bit.
What do others think?

No offence meant Amateur. 💐 sorry.

My point is you (and I) might disagree with it, but we can't stop it.

@AmateurSwami

You see profit as more important than human livelihoods.

Funny, but I was talking about applications in medicine which is likely to keep people alive and. I do remember people making comments like yours as the personal computer became popular. I wonder if scribes were moaning as well in Guttenberg?

You are arguing for employment for employments' sake. That does seem strange to me. Inefficient companies which can't compete. Producing too much of something, not enough of others, under strict state control.

Here in the US the number of radiologists needed has decreased because all X-rays are electronic now so the doctor sits in one location and reads the X-ray off their computer screen. Overnight the doctor is sitting in Israel where it is daytime. I think innovation like this is amazing.

I earn over £80k. I am voting tactically to prevent the conservatives getting in. My local seat is Hunt. Hate him.

I cherish paying more tax, and getting those arseholes out of power.

Oh yes please vote Hunt out, vile man.

I really think that some of the posters with massive huge chips on their shoulders should fuck off if they have nothing sensible to contribute.

Lib dem - super sensible imo

I can't understand why anyone would vote Conservative...

...however much you earn, one day you may find yourself in a situation wishing you'd not have voted Conservative because you need social care, NHS, benefits of some kind.

Voting to protect your own interests instead of the interests of the country on all levels is selfish, and something I can't understand or respect.

Why would anyone with a child vote Conservative? I honestly can't understand it! Just look at the school cuts (which are battling for the headlines with the NHS situation, but really school funding should be at the forefront of parents minds just now as it is a crisis waiting literally in the wings).

Also, whatever extra you pay in tax you'd save in University tuition fees, surely?

Sure. Because the policy on tuition fees will be the same in 5, 10, 15 years' time, especially as more and more people rush to get a free degree, thereby devaluing them even further...

If you have a 16-17 year old, it might be worth it. Otherwise you might as well spend the money on a crystal ball.

Not all children go to university, bibitty.

No, of course not. But I reckon the vast majority of the £80,000 + earners would want to.

A University education is quite ridiculously overpriced now.

I was talking to a 19 year old doing a modern languages degree at the weekend. She is home for the year now (end of May!). She and her peers worked out they are paying £60 per hour for their teaching.

You are making quite the assumption there.

Not everybody has children and not all children go to university.

Sure. Because the policy on tuition fees will be the same in 5, 10, 15 years' time, especially as more and more people rush to get a free degree, thereby devaluing them even further...

If you have a 16-17 year old, it might be worth it. Otherwise you might as well spend the money on a crystal ball.

Strongly said, but what are you saying?

Inefficient companies which can't compete.

Are you talking about banks? That we have to keep bailing them out?

C'mon....

"Not everybody has children"

You don't say?

I'm saying this because you are making the wrong assumption that high earners will get the extra tax back because of the abolition of tuition fees.

You are wrong and you are making some obtuse statements.

It's pretty clear what I am saying.

whatever extra you pay in tax you'd save in University tuition fees, surely?

No. This is absolutely as far from sure as you can get!

I imagine on that sort of salary you probably have a lovely big house too.. so the labour garden tax announced today might be of interest when making a decision ??

The Garden tax will affect more people than that.
Most of the South East, at least.

Chardonnays - no, you said "not everyone has children". What has that got to do with the price of fish?

I asked the question - surely most high earning parents would pay more in University tuition fees than they would pay in extra tax?

Note the question mark.

It's pretty clear what I am saying.

I am not so sure.

If 100 kids study algebra instead of 10, is value decreased by 90%?

Is this what you mean?

If my tax rates go up by much, I'll have to fire my nanny and then I won't be able to do my job any more. I'm working to very tight margins! So I'll be voting Conservative.

Can you link to garden tax?

We will be worse off in terms of income if we vote labour, but I will still vote labour.

Theres a much bigger picture to take into account. We live in a society that only works if everyone is able to have a decent living standard, NHS, education etc with money being put in not cut. I don't think we should just think of ourselves.

I also think Jeremy Corbyn is a genuinely nice man. I think he cares and although I am not sure how it would work I like his ideals on peace. He answers questions more honestly in my opinion than May and when he doesn't know of can't put a figure on something he admits that. We need to take a longer term view on terrorism, looking at what has worked and hasn't worked in the past so for those reasons and many more I will vote labour.