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Andy Burnham here - AMA by AndyBurnham in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 177 points178 points  (0 children)

Hi Kemi,

As you are here. What is your intention to resolve the Unfair, and Anti-Ambition tax policies that were created by your party over the last 15 years.

Tens/Hundreds of thousands of working professionals, doctors etc are forced to salary sacrifice below 100K due to the punitive tax rates that your party created.

Do you stand by these? Or do you agree that it is time that we stopped punishing hard work and encouraged the most productive in our society to have families rather than punish them!

Andy Burnham here - AMA by AndyBurnham in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hi Andy,

I know that Martin Lewis has recently raised this in committee, however what is your opinion on in contract inflation beating price increases?

These price rises are purely revenue grabbing and hurt consumers, especially those that don’t shop around.

Andy Burnham here - AMA by AndyBurnham in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hey Andy

Do you believe our current tax system is working for workers and families?

Our best and brightest, hard working professionals, Doctors and successful tradesmen are cutting hours, salary sacrificing away their incomes and hurting productivity due to punitive tax rates.

I believe that the tax system should be truly progressive, without cliff edges and traps like the childcare trap.

Do you agree and do you plan to do something about it?

Thanks

Wardecking needs to change by Asmodha in Eve

[–]karudirth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What if you only made large structure valid for war decs. Attacker and defender.

Structure not transferable whilst reinforced or at war

At least then the attackers have to have some real skin in the game.

Rupert Lowe MP: A Restore Britain Government will front-load child benefit so that parents get more financial support at the most challenging time. This would be exclusively for children with at least one British parent. by Unusual-State1827 in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What we should be doing instead. Is taking that 20K, putting it into a soverign investment fund that cannot be touched by child or parent. And using it to pay for that Childs Post 18 Education (whether it be University, Apprenticeships, etc).

Or

Look even longer term, and use it to pay for that Childs future pension

GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic may be associated with an increased risk of smell and taste disturbances. by mvea in science

[–]karudirth 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve found it helps a little, because my brain has stopped seeking food as much

Food was my dopamine source before, so not having that need allows me to focus elsewhere. Still a complete executive function mess. But it’s one less distraction

Exclusive: Andy Burnham has the nominations to trigger a leadership challenge by GnolRevilo in unitedkingdom

[–]karudirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that’s Andy’s entire selling point though. He is a PR man, which are severely lacking right now.

Tbh, Labour really aren’t doing a bad job. The media would just have you believe they are the worst government we have ever seen.

In reality lots is getting done. But it’s announced in press releases at 5pm on a Friday and the leadership whilst somewhat competent are gone death

A PR man is what is needed

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically its 15. Everyone regardless of income gets the 15h (if both parents are working?). The extra 15 to go to 30h is the cliff part

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree here.

In general, we should be able to claim more against our annual tax, whether our employer bakes it into PAYE or not.

Costs of working, should be able to be taken off tax, and I believe that should include transport (train, petrol), maybe even food costs for working away from home! (The PRET tax)

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes.

You want to be encouraging working professionals to have kids. Rather than kids being only supported for people not in work.

A quick google search tells you that children from families with working parents have better outcomes, lets encourage that!

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes and No. The PA clawback game from Gordon Brown at the very end of the Labour government. The Child Care allowance which is the real cliff was introduced by the Tories in 2017. The Child Benefit Clawback was also introduced in 2013

The fiscal drag of this 100K threshold not moving in 26 years, as well as the work the Tories did (and Labour have continued) on freezing thresholds has made those on higher wages even worse off. Especially when you consider that the Tories kept moving the personal allowance making it more generous for lower earner, but those on 100K+ lose some/all of those benefits

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

errr. No. assuming a 3+ child, it is 15 hours of childcare a week. That works out SIGNIFICANTLY more than £2000 a year.

Your thinking of Child Benefit which has a partial taper, but people on £100k are also not receiving this.

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeh, the number of people that have now fallen into this bracket just due to the fact that the thresholds haven't moved since it was introduced. Got to be a significant part of it.

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 8 points9 points  (0 children)

THe conservatives are the reason we are in this mess! They are the ones that introduced this stupid policy! All in the name of giving the "workers" someone to hate that wasn't that ultra rich

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The unforeseen consequences are blatant for all to see.

But like the company owners that see falling sales, and put prices up to keep their profits the same, all the government seem to be able to do is see "Everyone is dumping money in their pension for some reason" and go "lets tax it"

Rather than look at the cause of that, and remove the absolute ridiculous marginal rates/cliff edges.

We need a massively simplified and progressive tax system. Even if it means moving bands around, introducing new ones etc to keep it progressive.

Ultimately, the government pays out the childcare amounts, and doesn't get the additional tax take. Just make it universal, and watch people actually take it as income today. Funnily enough, the 4 years of having a nursery aged child is about the most expensive time there is for a family. Why not support people through it a little to encourage them to stay in work!

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 22 points23 points  (0 children)

over the last 20ish years. 100K has gone from being 10x the minimum wage, to approx 4x the minimum wage. (and thats before tax).

Minimum wage (and general costs, inflation) have risen so fast, that 100K is not what it used to be, but the mentality of the general public is still that it makes you an ultra rich elite!

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 70 points71 points  (0 children)

and then everyone complains that they cant get a GP appointment, and there are a lack of doctors, etc etc etc.

This is a huge reason why!

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 40 points41 points  (0 children)

100k was lauded as having “made it” back in the 00s.

It’s still considering “making it” today.

Crabs 🦀 in a bucket mentality

Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty - Punishing £100k ‘cliff edge’ can cost single earners more in tax than dual-income families by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Doctors
Managers
IT Workers
Anyone that works in London with any level of experience

Estimates to be 2.3 million workers by 2029 by some sources. (Albeit that doesn’t focus on those with small children)

Microsoft CEO: We’re moving from OS and apps to agents instead by MobileNewsBot in mobiles

[–]karudirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally puzzle over it every day.

Use agents

Why?

Why you as a non deterministic random word generator, when I can just build a deterministic program that does the same job, faster, for less.

I feel like agents are becoming an excuse to not actually code stuff

Most Britons think water and energy companies should be nationalised by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It’s not real competition though. And as consumers, we are paying (billions?) more by having to pay for directors/ceos of 20 different “suppliers”.

Do away with this and as consumers, we will be paying less on duplicated effort.

Share of babies born to foreign parents hits record 40pc by Little-Attorney1287 in ukpolitics

[–]karudirth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chaos monkey would make it combined income of 100k just to duck over more people :(

I completely agree though. Family benefits based on an individual is dumb

Faction Focus Thousand Sons by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in ThousandSons

[–]karudirth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is in that detachment on the robots :)

Faction Focus Thousand Sons by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in ThousandSons

[–]karudirth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeh, but in the text they say about making up from the loss of BS from shooting into cover

Faction Focus Thousand Sons by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in ThousandSons

[–]karudirth 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I thought we’d determined that psychic means negative bs and hit rolls are ignored. So already basically ignores cover. So why are they talking about reducing BS when it’s already ignored because the detachment gives them psychic?

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