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@The_Kid_Icarus @BladeoftheS “Ask yourself who is rich?” between someone earning £150k or a £1mill per year is a pretty daft question regardless of how the money is earned. However the comparison of how the money is earned/taxed v time is useful.
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Look, I completely understand why someone earning £25k or £40k would hear a person on £150k say ‘we’re not rich’ and think, are you serious? And to be honest, it’s a fair emotional reaction. That’s a lot of money, especially outside London.
But here’s the deeper issue: ‘rich’ isn’t just about how much you earn it’s about how much you own, and how your money behaves.
Take two people:
•One earns £150k a year as a senior professional in London. They’re taxed at 45% on a big chunk of their income. They work 50–60 hours a week, probably commute, pay high rent or a mortgage, childcare, student loans, and national insurance - don’t receive benefits and after taxes and basic life expenses, they’re doing fine - but they’re still relying on monthly income to survive.
•The other earns £1 million a year from passive income - say, rental properties, investments, dividends. That income is often taxed at much lower rates - sometimes 10%, 18%, or 20% depending on the asset class. They don’t need to work.
They can hire an accountant to minimise tax. Their capital keeps growing without lifting a finger.
Now ask yourself: who is ‘rich’?
It’s not about who works harder it’s about who’s freer. And the tax system often penalises earned income while favouring wealth accumulation.
On top of that, the average person earning a high salary often works 50–60 hours a week. That’s evenings, weekends, missed school pickups, burnt-out Sundays.
Meanwhile, asset-rich individuals may earn exponentially more - with no hours worked at all.
So when people like Gary Stevenson talk about inequality, it’s not to say someone on £150k is poor. Of course not. It’s to point out that our system taxes labour far more than it taxes wealth. And that’s a structural imbalance that affects everyone- because it keeps pushing the middle and working classes to carry the load, while a minority builds untouchable wealth in the background.
So this isn’t about who has it hardest. It’s about who has leverage.
If you want to tax the rich more you need to understand the middle class is the gateway to working class success. They can’t afford to be taxed more because it becomes literally regressive. That is they go backwards. There business shrinks and let productivity leads to less work. It’s a domino.
There is a big difference between someone who is left with 10-30k disposable income or savings at the end of a tax year and someone who has millions.
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@GoonerGirl1969 Spurs and united with less and in a relegation battle😭
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@PeterSweden7 Only about 180 were assumed refugees, they weren’t officially asked if they were. And they were originally from places like Chile, former USSR, former Yugoslavia who have been in Sweden for 30/40 years contributing to society.
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@adamkeys_ Arsenal fans getting involved in a non Arsenal game after bottling it again…
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@mrjamesob listening to show at the moment, I call the public school arrogance/confidence, “convincing speculation!”
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@castreon_007 @centredevils I’m pretty sure after a purple patch of results we’d support ETH even more.
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@centredevils I do not share this sentiments yall would turn on him soon as he has a purple patch of results its only fair his potential replacement is lined up after the takeover is complete.. Hansi flick,zidane,nagelsman top 3 replacement.
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🚨🎙️| Teddy Sheringham: “Erik ten Hag probably has one of the toughest jobs in world football, because #mufc is a massive club and it needed turning around. He’s had massive decisions to make and he’s dealt with them impeccably! It’s not the finished article yet, but it’s definitely on the right tracks.”
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TW rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, homophobia, misogyny. I thought there was nothing I could learn about the police that would shock me after Sarah Everard, Nicole Smallman & Bibaa Henry, Hillsborough, Stephen Lawrence and Stephen Port. I was wrong.
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The Met apologises again. This time its really disturbing behaviour of officers at Charing Cross station where apparently messages about raping colleagues, killing black children + domestic violence were "jokes and banter". One cop known as the "mcrapey raperson". THREAD
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@ejrainfordbrent So sorry you are abused like this is. Utterly shameful. The sheer hypocrisy is astounding, firstly calling you racist, then the illiteracy, the whole letter has a mix of upper/lower case. These cretins make me sick.
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