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  Yes Roger, that is quite simply it!
  
  Barry, I think you post raises more questions than it addresses.
  
  Firstly it confirms the huge inequality that exists within our country. Although this is may not be seen a necessarily bad, it is quite telling that (supposedly) 80% of income tax comes from 11% of earners. It doesn't take a great deal of understanding to see that this represents a gap that is not representative of anyone in this country.
  
  I'm sure that most of the remaining 89% would love to be in the position to pay in more, ie earn more. One thing I can be sure of is that every penny of someone on £20k goes back into the economy. So by this reasoning the lower earners are putting 'more back in' proportionally than those with the spare cash to employ a tax lawyer. The only way to address this would be to improve social mobility...an idea fast in decline as a result of coalition policy.
  
  Another more amusing way to look at it is: we only have to get the financial elite to cough up a bit more (or just pay what they owe in some cases) and then 89% of the country won't have to pay income tax at all. I think you have a winning policy on your hands here!!! Vast rafts of the public see many of these big business wages as 'gold plated' (by your definition)...I can even give you a percentage now, 99%.
  
  As for the like for like survey: as many public sector roles are exactly that, I find the nuture of such a survey spurious to say the least. And if you compare the wages of teachers (for instance) you will find that most private schools adhere to the same pay scale as the state schools. So in this factual instance the wages are the same, the only differences being: longer holidays and 1/5 of the class sizes...which in a funny way is all part of a retirement plan.

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