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Thanks Boris
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)
Ah yes - but it's only a 1.25% increase and not the 2% we were being told - or spun.
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.
Yeah but at the same time lets acknowledge that a generation has completely underpaid into the system and now we are starting to see the problems that has caused. At the same time, the property ponzi scheme has favoured them as supply has dried up.
For reference, I stand to gain from this policy in the long run as my parents have significant (but not obscene) wealth so this isn't about envy or a generational attack (I know these are the favoured tools of people without a point to make) but about fairness and cold hard logic.
Yep, what does that work out as? 18 months worth? I would love to see a breakdown of cost of care and cost of occupancy/sustenance within a care home, I think it is probably right that care is paid for out of some kind of general taxation (that rich pensioners aren't excluded from paying themselves). But what does the 1k a week for a care home pay for currently, at least a third of that must be 'rent' and food, maybe the answer is more pragmatism about the true cost breakdown and a reflection on who should pay for that and why?
Bloody Socialists
Germany’s system offers a minimum level of benefits and does not cover the full costs of care.
Individual service users must pay the remaining costs plus any costs of bed and board in residential care (social assistance pays in the case of people with very low means).
So what's going to happen in NI, Scotland and Wales?A health and social care tax will be introduced across the UK to pay for reforms to the care sector and NHS funding in England
Sounds like the politics of envy there to me. Plus, just because you are living in a house worth over £500000 doesn’t mean you are rich. There are two or three bed semis in Cardiff worth that. Plus again that most pensioners have worked hard all their life, paid their taxes and National Insurance, and spent/saved their money prudently, so why should they have their property snatched off them later in life.
Having been through the existing system when I had to sell my parents house to pay Nursing Home fees these new arrangements are an improvement even though it is far from perfect. Whatever system anyone comes up with will generate objections but at least Johnson and co have grasped the nettle even though it breaks a major manifesto commitment.
The social care system in this country has had it
The elderly population keeps living longer
And the people who work in care are paid crap wages
It's a tsunami
Unless its funded from the public purse , taxpayers or as other countries do through separate insurance , as you righty point out folk are living and working longer that pulls on the purse strings as the elderly need greater support and care , we can't have it all ways Covid health funding ,vaccines , job / business support , has tipped the world of government funding on its head , extreme measure for extreme times .
I note the triple lock is going to be suspended or scrapped , this is a big balancing act .
Social care definitely needs sorting as it's been underfunded for ages, but NI in it's current form is the wrong way to fund it.
Someone earning £20k a year will now pay 6.9% of their salary on NI, going up to 10.7% at £50k - fair enough, but then it starts to go down, with £100k earners paying 7% and £130k earners 6.1%.
Income from share dividends, investments and property are exempt from NI too.
Should be income tax, not NI.