[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Hari Sekhon]

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Wed 09 Sep, Hari Sekhon wrote:
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>> Except that people want to earn money and have recession proof (or at 
>> least resistant) jobs and steady incomes, if you build it and market it 
>> properly they will come and you will reduce shortages in those positions.
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>> -h
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>    Unfortunately there is a poverty trap which can mean that people do
> better by not working harder, or even at all. Any additional earnings
> require some effort, and result in equivalent loss of benefits or additional
> taxes
The solution being? Remove benefits and make it an even playing field to 
encourage people to work hard and compete. This would also allow people 
who have worked hard to actually be financially better off rather than 
some getting free property and others struggling their whole life to get 
one by paying for it, which would be much fairer on the decent folks.

There's also this trap in the upper tax band, it's so hard to earn 
anything more because half of what you earn goes in tax anyway... so any 
improvement is so marginal as to not justify the effort, so tax should 
also really be a flat rate percentage as it is a percentage after all... 
you earn more you pay tax more anyway but at least the gradient doesn't 
become even harder.

So the current system removes incentive from poor people and removes 
incentive from hard working people and people who have good jobs, and 
the UK government think they are financially clever how exactly? Oh 
wait, they are clever, they fleece people more than any other 
government... more money for them! Now that is clever...

-h

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