Astraios wrote:Torco wrote:and is it pronounced 'no fuck' in non-rhotic accents ?
... No. xD You fail vowels. /n@u/, /nO:f@k/
Bryan wrote:The poorest wouldn't pay any tax in the UKIP system. But in any case, in my system those on minimum wage would pay very little tax, and it would progressively go up to around 100,000 earners who would pay around 40%
I think UKIP's policy on tax is pretty good. But I don't agree with it 100%.
DISCLAIMER: supporting a party doesn't mean you agree 100%.
Of course not, but one
must have standards: just because I endorse the idea of, say, nationalizing healthcare, education and transportation in Chile, it doesn't mean I'll side with a hypothetical party that, promising to do so, also has an agenda of making anal sex, or riding a bike without a permit, an offense punishable with jail.
As for the poorest, they're not the only ones who have problems. the poorest is 11kilopounds per year or below, right? that's like 1,4kilousd per month. yet the UK is 32% more expensive than the US, which isn't cheap to begin with, so taking the US as a reference, that's roughly making a thousand dollars a month, or using Chile as a reference, that's like making 380000 pesos per month. if you take 300 dollars from a yank making a thousand per month, you seriously hurt him financially, even though he's not 'of the poorest of the poor'. Similarly, taking 30% off the chilean dude who's making 380 lucas per month you leave him with 260 lucas. neither of those cases are misery, but it's still a pretty heavy punch in the nuts, just to take 300 clams into the treasury.
By comparison, if you take a 33% off a dude who makes 10kusd per month, as opposed to 30%, you make the same amount of money, and it doesn't hurt him. If you take a 34% off a dude who makes 100kusd per month, as opposed to 33%, you make more than three times as much, and it hurts him even less.
sorry for using usd, but I don't really think in pounds. still, 11e3 pounds yearly is not a lot of money, considering that your own BBC points out that in order to achieve a minimum standard of living, you need to make 13e3 of the things.