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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Because of other compensating alterations, you don't end up paying more until around the £33k mark, and even then it's less than £10 a month more in actual take home terms. This is with a view to better funding essential public services. I genuinely don't understand why anyone would be against having one less takeaway a month in the name of nation wide improvements, but maybe that's just me. Maybe most people would rather pay less tax and live in crumbling towns, and have their universal health care collapse so that they have to pay many times more in private health insurance. Seems like the best plan, really.
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Exactly!
Scotland give more freebies to its citizens. Free hospital parking, free prescriptions, free home care for the elderly and free universities.
The SNP are all about increasing and improving public services and stopping things like the selling off of the NHS. I would say that all those who voted the tax changes as a good idea… and a lot did, recognize the investment is for them and not a stealth tax as the English government suggests.
Who, in England, would vote for substantially higher taxes in order to maintain the NHS and other public services" According to recent poles, quite a lot.
The Tory party simply don't want to spend money. They can keep taxes low so long as they keep public spending low. The problem with that is, its not progressive and inevitably, everything eventually starts to crumble.