Reform UK’s tax plans disproportionately benefit high earners, analysis shows

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1. Well fuck me who could’ve seen that being the case.

2. Reform are just Thatcherite Libertarians draped in a Union Flag.

   Everything they claim to believe is a convenience to gain traction for their aggressive cuts into spending.

3. Are people still surprised that Farage is economically just a free-market Thatcherite who believes in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations?

   He doesn’t give a fuck about the working class, they are just whipped up into a rage as a means to an end. 

4. Quelle surprise. Thats how all these far right parties roll. Promise anti immigration measures, but all they do is remove (workers) rights and cut tax for the rich.

5. In terms of % of income, it’s not, but yeah if you earn more and get a tax cut you will get more money than someone earning less.

   They are also planning to raise the personal allowance to some £20’000, which disproportionally benefits low earners.

   The top 10% already pay a lot of taxes if were being honest.

   The idea of his plan is fine the funding is a mess.

6. Reform party policy isn’t what they said it was?!?!?!? Colour me shocked. It’s as if reform voters don’t care and just want only see white people when walking down the street. What a joke of a party

7. Nooooo, not Reform. They just want to help everyone. I’m sure any benefit to high earners is purely coincidental and not due to the “party” being created for and run for high earners.

   Anyway it’s all illegal immigrants fault or something

8. Higher earners would benefit more because they contribute vastly more to income taxes.

   Huge numbers of people pay next to nothing in taxes.

9. Eton Group private education, precious metal speculator in the city of London, member of one of the most exclusive gentleman’s clubs conning the poor into voting for him and his like to pay hardly any tax shock!

10. Of course it is. I did some mental maths when I read the *”contract”* and I’d be nearly £4k better off on Income Tax.

    It’s pure fantasy. It reduces income tax, disproportionately for higher earners, it throws taxpayer money at private healthcare and the offset is meant to be in “waste”. Bullshit

11. What a meaningless headline.

    Higher earners are the greatest contributors to tax earnings.

    Of course any meaningful lowering of tax is going to benefit them more than people paying less tax.

    Is sky going to complain that higher earners disproportionately contribute to the tax base?

12. A party with a London commodities broker/trader wants to cut taxes to enrich himself? Whouldda thunk it. Almost as though these old Thatcherites still peddle a myth that trickle-down economics works when it’s just them being greedy and then shitting on everyone else.

13. Of course they do. Make rich richer and praise Putin and trump that’s pretty much their agenda…

14. Of course they do garage was a banker he cares not one jot about people at the bottom.

15. I’m pretty sure if Labour or Corbyn decided to raise the tax threshold to 20000 Reddit and the media would be all over it, praising it for its progressiveness

    Because it’s Farage who’s brave enough to do it, taking the lowest paid out of tax is now benefiting the richest

16. Let him split the right wing vote and do us all a favour. Keeps the tories out that’s ok with me.

17. It doesn’t matter. He is not even in the race, so he can promise two sunsets a day if wants to… Kwasi cut income tax by 1% and the entire economy crumbled. If this troglodyte had any chance it would be worth discussing how stupid and unrealistic his plans are, but as it stands there’s no point.

18. That bloke down the pub? Surely not. Seems like a nice normal geezer.

19. Well, anyone who isn’t stupid enough to think that Trump won the 2020 election could tell that.

20. Mainstream media going all in with the smear campaign

21. Why don’t we just become high earners then; are we stupid?

22. this is the key reason I refuse to vote, it’s a choice of A an arsehole or B an arsehole, no matter what we pick the rich keep getting richer and the poor become poorer along with them tripping more of our rights away and pissing tax payers money up the wall.