Oh dear. You don’t seem to understand that the amount of income someone has is not a percentage of their gross salary, because there is this thing called “tax” which is deducted first.
Your view epitomises the lack of economic understanding which is evident in the current cabinet. The country needs the people who earn the salaries in stressful jobs with a lot of responsibility, who pay the vast majority of tax revenues which fund the services for everyone else in the country. The UK now has the most top heavy tax system of any country in the developed world. Meanwhile, economic studies have shown that people who earn these salaries have less disposable income on average than those who earn far less and live in cheaper areas. Often they have to live in expensive areas in order to earn these salaries which mean that they can fund the rest of the country. Only London and the South East make a net contribution in tax revenue. They are already penalised by the punitive taxes and high housing costs, having to pay far more for a modest family home. They then don’t receive lots of the freebies like child benefit, childcare funding etc, so fund these services for everyone else but don’t even get to use them. When housing and tax is taken into account people earning £100k and living in London or the SE are on average poorer than those earning the average UK salary and living in an area with cheap housing, while often working longer hours/ studying for years to become skilled professionals etc, in jobs that we really need people to do to make the country function/ to raise enough tax revenue for the services everyone else demands.
You clearly resent people who earn more than you do but if you penalise them any more than they are being penalised already more and more will conclude it’s not worth the effort. This is why we have a brain drain of skilled professionals and business people emigrating, people retiring early or cutting their working hours. If you remove all incentive and keep hammering them for their hard work then eventually a significant proportion stop bothering. It’s no surprise that there’s an annual announcement of another “black hole” because people obviously respond to incentives and penalties and adapt their behaviour accordingly.
So continue to be spiteful if you wish but it’s bad economics, as the last two years have already proved and if our politicians are incompetent enough that they double down on this approach they will simply accelerate the declining living standards for everyone. This is an economic fact which has been proven in many countries around the world every time this approach has been tried.
It’s called “biting the hand that feeds you”, or “killing the goose that lays the golden egg”, although in this case the goose largely seems to have either decided to retire early, work part time or migrate. This isn’t theory, there is data demonstrating this which was presented by economists to Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt before her. Sadly we have such an economically illiterate electorate that they lap up this class war nonsense, just like with the Brexit bullshit and the idiots who proclaimed that “they didn’t care if it made them poorer”. Now they’ve got exactly what they wished for exactly like they were warned they would but are still full of excuses and blaming everyone else. I presume this will be the same and they will go through some deluded mental contortions when their living standards continue to collapse in order to try to blame everybody else for the obvious outcome of them supporting tax policies which were proposed as a joke by Count Binface and not something that any remotely competent Government would actually try to implement because it’s economic suicide.