(Did the figures for those on lower incomes make you look bad? Or not have a large enough piss boiling effect?)
What is this graph supposed to show?
Top line salary take home is a bit meaningless unless Scotland and rUK have identical government spending on government services, off the top of my head if you are earning an above median salary but have massive prescription requirements then that headline number is a bit meaningless if you’re not paying for prescriptions (I know the figures are marginal but I deliberately chose an extreme to highlight the partisan nature of this analysis).
The reality is that at that £50,000 income there is increasing expectation that offspring go to university a quick look at Edinburgh University fees for 2024 show Scottish resident students pay £1,820 compared to students from the rest of the UK paying £9,250. That is just one example, there’s plenty more.
Either you have government services and tax to support it or you have no government services and no tax (And the experiment in the rest of the UK is showing that doesn’t work out so well if you like your schools and hospital roofs to not be on the floor, or worse).
It’s not a “shortfall in take home pay”. You are taking home exactly what you *should* be taking home, the amount of net pay after tax that you are due. It’s not “falling short”.
What’s happening is that in Scotland you are paying more tax so that the Scottish government can offset as much as possible of the Tory austerity we have been suffering under for I-can’t-be-arsed-counting-how-long.
That’s the decision of the democratically elected government of Scotland using the limited powers devolved to them by a UK government they didn’t vote for, that they are subjected to after a referendum in which they were lied to and made promises which, if one were inclined to use the word, represent a “shortfall” in fulfillment, and that the UK government is afraid to repeat because they know what will happen if they do.
Higher taxes, immigration, worse social services. Those are what you need to balance with our demographics.
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*IF* you are earning over £50,000 per year.
(Did the figures for those on lower incomes make you look bad? Or not have a large enough piss boiling effect?)
What is this graph supposed to show?
Top line salary take home is a bit meaningless unless Scotland and rUK have identical government spending on government services, off the top of my head if you are earning an above median salary but have massive prescription requirements then that headline number is a bit meaningless if you’re not paying for prescriptions (I know the figures are marginal but I deliberately chose an extreme to highlight the partisan nature of this analysis).
The reality is that at that £50,000 income there is increasing expectation that offspring go to university a quick look at Edinburgh University fees for 2024 show Scottish resident students pay £1,820 compared to students from the rest of the UK paying £9,250. That is just one example, there’s plenty more.
Either you have government services and tax to support it or you have no government services and no tax (And the experiment in the rest of the UK is showing that doesn’t work out so well if you like your schools and hospital roofs to not be on the floor, or worse).
It’s not a “shortfall in take home pay”. You are taking home exactly what you *should* be taking home, the amount of net pay after tax that you are due. It’s not “falling short”.
What’s happening is that in Scotland you are paying more tax so that the Scottish government can offset as much as possible of the Tory austerity we have been suffering under for I-can’t-be-arsed-counting-how-long.
That’s the decision of the democratically elected government of Scotland using the limited powers devolved to them by a UK government they didn’t vote for, that they are subjected to after a referendum in which they were lied to and made promises which, if one were inclined to use the word, represent a “shortfall” in fulfillment, and that the UK government is afraid to repeat because they know what will happen if they do.
Higher taxes, immigration, worse social services. Those are what you need to balance with our demographics.