[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 9 Sep 2009, Hari Sekhon wrote:
>The solution being? Remove benefits and make it an even playing field to 
>encourage people to work hard and compete.

Thus a return to the jolly Victorian practice of allowing people to
starve to death if they have no work. Brilliant!

>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,

Tripe. Pay _rises_ are a lot bigger in the upper tax bands; someone
getting that 5K raise you think is all is worth bothering with may get
only 2.5K of it, but no-one at the minimum-wage end of the scale is
getting 2.5K raises to begin with!

There's little incentive for effort in the upper band because most
upper-rate taxpayers are extremely well off compared to most of the
people in Britain and, if they don't love money for money's sake, can
live pretty comfortably. So why work harder?

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> Oil is for sissies
Yesterday was Brieday, August.
Today is Gouday, August.
Tomorrow will be Chedday, August.
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug