Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
It's not damning at all. Care costs broadly the same. It's like saying that if a holiday costs £1000 and you only have a £5000 in the bank then the holiday uses up a fifth of your income but if you have £100,000 in the bank it uses up 1%

Well no ****ing shit. That's not evil, that's not Tory scum stuff, that's the real world. You somehow want wealthier people to be charged £1000 a day for care instead of £100 so they all end up with nothing? What is it you want?

The fact is, before, poorer people could lose nearly everything, now they don't. Problem is the kind of people who produce this far-left guff are typically so bloody middle class nowadays, so absent from economic reality that they have no idea what happens on the ground and thus think graphics like that are damning.

Does my head in.
Typically rational and well thought out response.

Does a wealthy person pay more for their child's state education than a poorer person, does a wealthy person pay for more their NHS care than a poorer person, does a wealthy person pay more for policing in their area compared to a poorer person. Do I need to go on?

With this system we will have a progressive system of taxation for healthcare until you reach old age when effectively (for the vast majority) a flat tax kicks in. It is clear that governments of the UK are not keen to tax accumulated wealth in the way they do income, this is driven by lord knows what but isnt sustainable given current economic patterns and therefore is entirely irrational.