Not all nhs workers will be in the 43% tax bracket, but a lot are- physios/nurses/optometrist. All full time, expletives teachers too. And the brackets for these haven’t changed in years.
Theres always someone claiming we have better public services but I don’t think we do- I work in education and it’s on its knees; have a friend who works in CAHMS for NHS, also on its knees; a friend who works as a pharmacist for drug dependents- the system is on its knees; and, of course, a consultant in a&e who tells of the horror stories there.
Universities don’t even offer Scottish students many places anymore.
Where is the demand for growth? The incentive to earn more, and so, oh more tax. There’s barely an incentive to do SQA marking or overtime’s anymore as it’ll be taxed at 54%- as per pp.
If you look at the breakdown of % of Scot’s who are in the upmost tax bracket- it’s pitiful. We have too few earning alot to tax. It’s unsustainable. You can’t just keep taxing middle earners because you provide no incentive for business/higher earners.
This sums it up well: “ at present the top 16 per cent of tax-payers account for 60 per cent of revenues, according to the Fraser Of Allender Institute. Scotland’s problem isn’t that high earners aren’t being taxed but that there aren’t enough high earners to generate funds for the SNP’s social programmes.”
I do find it sad that Scotland views ‘progressiveness’ as taking from x to fund y. Rather than trying to generate and concentrate on growing.