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    High rates of tax are simply counter-productive. It seems that there are some who do not care about the amount of tax collected by HMRC as long as the higher earners suffer a higher rate.

    This is simply idiotic.

    A high rate of tax is not the same as paying more tax.

    It is not just that such people can 'bugger off' as Chris puts it. I is far more complex than that. These people can have far more control over what they earn than the rest of us.

    After all, why bother to take the risk of employing that additional person or buying that piece of machinery for your business when you will have more than half of what extra you earn stolen in tax? Why bother to go out and win that extra contract?

    Why not take a couple of days off a week to keep under the threshold?

    On the latter point I know several people who do that with the 40p rate now. They make sure that they just earn up to that. If it wasn't for that threshold they would certainly earn more, spend more and very likely expand their business to do so, employing more people.

    The higher rates of tax are damaging to the economy and suppress growth. Frankly it is plain mad, utterly bonkers, taxing people at 50p (or even 40p) when you need to generate more tax revenue and want economic growth.

    This is about dealing with life as it actually is and not how some people think it should be.

    It is not as if the extra tax you do pay is worthwhile? We see generations dossers and scroungers making a lifestyle choice to live on benefits, an inefficient NHS providing a second rate service, schools failing to educate our children, local authority planners screwing up our neighbourhoods, £billions being spent on interest because we had a government that could not be bothered to run its finances responsibly and the government cutting spending on the most important budget of all, defence. THIS is exactly how such people view this and there is far more truth in that last sentence for comfort.

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