to think people that pay higher rate tax, are no better than anyone else?

[stchristopher]

people where complaining about traffic lights in town.
someone starts piping up well i am a higher rate tax payer you know.
as if that makes them some kind of royality or something special.

what an arse - them nnot youu

why do some people though have a need to tell you that they are higher rate tax payers?
as if they should have more of a say over things?

But didn't you know that those who pay a higher rate in tax are officially more important than us proles. They even have special spots reserved in heaven for them you know

I guess because they pay more tax than people who don't pay tax or pay a standard rate of tax?

Doesn't stop them being nobs but I think that's why they do it.

Oh, and I suppose to boast, although it's not like being a higher rate taxpayer makes you a millionaire.

i really should have said to that man, so what? what you telling us that for?

I have never in my life heard anyone say this.

you does your bit and that's that

for every high paid exec ten underling are required on low wages- people oft seem to forget that

course us non-tax payers are scum (DH would agree and tell me to get a job LOL...)

I've never heard anyone say this.

Welcome to Mumsnet

Wait until they introduce supertax for those on over £100 k - then they can be really elitist

its basically like saying "I earn a lot you know" arse.

I have never heard anyone say that ever.

But yay. Lets just randomly slag off a whole group of people because of what one person may have said.
That works.

well maybe they begrudge paying higher rate tax's. I hate paying tax's fullstop when i see how much they take, but hey ho. Then again they could just be a stuck up, pompos arse

Im not a high rate tax payer just so you know

... and no worse

my dp is special but not for being a higher rate tax payer...

Just say loudly "nobody likes a show off"

You know that means they earn about 1p over the threshold.

some people are rude and crass and insensitive regardless of how much tax they pay

don;t tar everyone with teh same brush

you mean the traffic light didn't let them through when they demanded it. sheesh.

St Christopher - as in pay Caesar what is Caesar's and pay God what is God's?

what a knob.