Quote Originally Posted by Doucas View Post
The richest in the UK made huge amounts of money on the back of the pandemic, why not tax them?

Answer - because the tories have been bought out by them and the average person from the UK decides its immigrants fault instead of the mega rich (thanks to the daily mail and the sun)
Yeah, that's a good outline for a Socialist Worker editorial at any point in the last 50 years, but it isn't really true.

The top 1% of income tax payers pay around a 25% of all income tax.
The bottom half of all income tax payers pay 10%.
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/9178

And rightly so, may I add.

I would probably rather they increased income tax than national insurance, but something had to be done.