However, the percentage they earn is actually far greater and imagine how much tax revenue we would have if they were taxed at the same rates as in the 1970s.
On bullshit projects, also increased arms and funneling of money from public sector to inflated private sector. We spend more funding privatised railways than when they were nationalised. Nearly every time you have an NHS appointment the money goes to a private clinic. Tax revenue has increased...
Are you familiar with maths?
Britain creates more wealth now. Tax is lower - top rate under Thatcher was 90%
We are now the money laundering and tax haven capital of the world.
The gap between rich and poor is at its greatest, yet was at its narrowest in the early 1970s, during my lifetime. The...
It's all bullshit, our parents and grandparents grew up when the rich paid tax and there was money for things. The wealth society creates should see retirement coming down. However, a system based on the needs of thieves sees greater wealth in fewer hands, less funding for social needs and a...