Richard Bridge - 11 Aug 15 - 04:58 PM

Unfortunately DtG's example bears absolutely no resemblance to reality does it Bridge?

99 people earning £100 would pay S.F.A: in tax - more likely they would be claiming far more in benefits

The 1 person earning £1,000,000 is already paying a disproportionate amount of the income tax collected in this country. The top 1% of earners paying something like 40% of all INCOME TAX collected.

The usual "socialist" mantra of tax the rich is a bit of a red herring anyway - Income tax accounts for a tiny proportion of the taxes collected by the treasury IIRC it is somewhere between 6% and 10% of the total. Now VAT there's an earned and guess what Bridge everybody pays it on damn near everything you buy rich'n'poor alike the rate doesn't vary.

akenaton - Date: 11 Aug 15 - 03:17 PM"

Well said very very true.

For the benefit of Fred and Steve - and just to score a point:

Fred: "Yes, I agree that the IRA was a bunch of murdering hypocrites."

Teribus: The PIRA certainly, the "Official" IRA most certainly NOT, they took a look at how things were headed in 1972 and stood apart from direct action completely as they saw the only thing they would be doing was pouring fuel on the fire. The IRA saw that the entire population of mainland Britain was on the side of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement and that left to peaceful protest their aims would have all been achieved.

Nice to see that attention to detail is up to its usual poor standard Shaw:

"Interesting that Teribus denigrates the killing of innocent civilians by the IRA "