And this, which nobody bothered to respond to, cannot be repeated enough. The judgement from people based on a headline salary figure who clearly have not the faintest comprehension of housing or childcare costs in other parts of the country, or that a family with two low earners and claiming UC will get a similar amount of take home pay in total to a lone parent earning £100k once support for housing costs and childcare etc for the low earner is factored in, and that they are not taxed on their UC, and that the lone parent is taxed more than them on their actual earnings even though they are doing everything! It's an unsustainable system, hence why it is falling apart. We've been bled dry already, my household has nothing left to give and I certainly won't be spending even less time with my children to pay 100% of my additional earnings to the state to give to others who - in many cases - have a lot more disposable income than I do.
And what of the single parents earning £100k, with small children in childcare? Taxed as much as a couple who can have one parent at home! Half the tax free allowance, higher rate tax imposed at half the household income, child benefit withdrawn at half the income, as are funded nursery hours and "tax free childcare" and the personal allowance.
Usually to earn that much as a lone parent to try to provide for their children with no state help they will have to be living in the SE so at least half of that net pay taken up with mortgage/ rent, and another £2k on childcare at least. End up even earning £100k having only £1000 or so left to pay council tax, food, commuting, utilities, and no help with nursery funding although they obviously need more childcare than a couple who have 47 hours per day to split earning and time with children between them. Yeah, living it up, big time. Rich. 🤣🤣🤣 And faced with over 100% tax rate if you try to work more or seek a promotion to get more net pay to cover the inflation. You have NO CLUE.