Perhaps canary would like to consider this (though I don’t suppose we shall ever find out whether he did):
At present, somebody earning £150,000pa will pay £58,182 (38.79%) in Income Tax and NI. From next April, they will pay £59,426 (39.62%). This is an increase of £1,244, which is more than somebody earning £16,000pa will pay in total.
As well as that, for those earning more than £125,140, every £1,000 extra they earn will see £483 in deductions. A person earning between £100,000 and £125,140 will see £633 deducted for every extra £1,000 they earn (because of the tapered removal of personal allowance).
So it’s scarcely surprising that people like youngmaf will cut down the amount they work. After all, why knock your pipe out when the Chancellor confiscates almost half of any extra cash you earn? It perfectly demonstrates why excessive taxation kills hard work and enterprise – a lesson this TINO government seems yet to learn.
This administration seems content to see one in five of the working age population sit at home munching Hobnobs whilst granting hundreds of thousands of work visas to foreigners who will do the jobs that they will not; it seems happy to opt out of ensuring the country's energy security, instead relying on erratic sources and unreliable imports of gas. It is happy to pour seemingly endless amounts of cash into the bottomless pit that is the NHS, measuring "success" by money spent rather than outcomes achieved. It is keen to ensure the police "service" remains a branch of the Social Services, allowing Chief Constables to demonstrate their "woke" credentials rather than concentrating on feeling collars. In short, you have to wonder whether they really want to win the next General Election or whether they have all found it a bit too much trouble.