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Edited by A Good Troll:
4/19/2013 6:37:51 PM
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£40 a month? Maybe for the British making £20,000 a year.
I'd probably pay £10,000 a year in taxes to NHS or more, so nope, not what I want.
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Edited by lonepaul2441: 4/19/2013 6:46:26 PMNot sure what these mean but you do the calculations that effect you God dam it just checked the national insurance isn't for the NHS but other taxes are :(.
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Yeah NI is for things like maternity, unemployment, etc. I think. Britain doesn't break down NHS taxes into a separate rate I don't think - I think they (intentionally) pull the NHS funding from the general income tax fund so that it isn't broken down (clearly anyway).
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Well its like £108 billion for the NHS budget.
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Well, there are about 26-27 million UK taxpayers. So if everyone made the same amount of money (lol), the average cost per taxpayer per year for the system is £4,153.85.
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ok and?
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The point being that it is a highly progressive taxation system. It might cost £40 for the lower middle class, but somewhere out there someone is paying a massive amount of money to subsidize that care - mainly well-off people in London. Which is why it blows my mind the UK government seems willing to throw the City under the bus. The rich are more than willing to move elsewhere, and wealthy business in the UK is willing to move elsewhere too. Obviously I'm in banking so I'll reference that, but the UK has practically spit on bankers in the City. And in response UBS, Barclays, pretty much everyone is cutting staff from London. UK citizens might say good riddance for that, but those are the guys that pay taxes out of the ass and support UK taxation schemes like the NHS.
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The thing is those who pay more also benefit from the system, they have grown up with the NHS and are more than happy to pay their taxes as long as they are not really high. They know their taxes cover the costs that the lower classes fall short of but that's the point of the rich, if they earn more they should be able to contribute more. If somebody earns £20,000 a year then somebody who is earning £140,000 a year should not pay the same tax band. Im just trying to work out if you still hate the idea/system now I found out I was wrong.
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Edited by Swim Good: 4/19/2013 6:53:32 PMNI Contributions do vary: - if you earn more than £149 a week and up to £797 a week, you pay 12 per cent of the amount you earn between £149 and £797 - if you earn more than £797 a week, you also pay 2 per cent of all your earnings over £797 [url=http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ni/intro/basics.htm#4]sauce[/url] It's still an excellent system.
