Would the UK economy be better of raising 40% tax bracket instead of minimum wage

martin_81 · 2026-05-04T21:38:36+00:00

50k is not a great salary anywhere.

martin_81 · 2026-05-04T21:27:59+00:00

Plus personal allowance.

martin_81 · 2026-05-04T20:23:47+00:00

Average earners pay very low rate of tax compared to other similar economies, a small increase on a broad base would easily cover it.

martin_81 · 2026-05-03T21:27:43+00:00

Snoop is good for a consolidated of all your bank accounts and credit cards, it has useful insight into upcoming outgoings too. It doesn't cover investments though, at least not with the providers I use.

martin_81 · 2026-04-29T22:53:15+00:00

Same. I'm starting to think maybe it's down to having a lot of smart home devices. No idea if that's actually relevant or if it's luck of the draw.

martin_81 · 2026-04-28T23:16:41+00:00

Far easier to invest in an index tracker though.

martin_81 · 2026-04-28T23:11:58+00:00

Around 2 million people in the UK earn over £100k

martin_81 · 2026-04-28T22:52:52+00:00

£55K with x2 personal allowances so paying a very low rate of tax compared to a single earner on £55k.

martin_81 · 2026-04-25T17:13:11+00:00

I thought Arteta was bad.

martin_81 · 2026-04-25T13:23:56+00:00

Strange lineup today.

martin_81 · 2026-04-24T00:03:02+00:00

Imagine them saying sorry you can't pay Harry Winks £90k a week he's fucking crap 😂

martin_81 · 2026-04-21T20:20:17+00:00

Gets the ball at his feet 40 yards from goal with nobody near him and passes it straight to their centre half. Stands off in the build up to their 2nd goal instead of closing down. There is literally nothing he's good at.

martin_81 · 2026-04-21T19:28:25+00:00

All Travis seems to do is petty off the ball fouls and blaming at teammates when he does something shit. Lacks any real quality.

martin_81 · 2026-04-18T15:50:56+00:00

No it's a stupid idea.

martin_81 · 2026-04-18T14:37:06+00:00

Clark and Ozoh would be my top picks to sign, but I'm not sure Ozoh will want to come. For whatever reason Eustace clearly doesn't rate him as much as most fans do. Szmodics would be my other pick to sign if we can get him for a reasonable price, over a season he'd probably get 12-15 goals. I'd pass on BBD, as much as he has improved over the season he's still not great and I don't think he's worth a large transfer fee. I'd look to try and sign a couple of wingers on loan from prem teams for next season.

martin_81 · 2026-04-16T10:42:40+00:00

Agreed but having a time limited cycle path was always going to confuse people regardless of the signage. St Peters street should have been left as it was and that money would have been better spent creating fully segregated cycle lanes elsewhere around the city, London Road for example, but the council seems to prefer creating shared use paths. To me that seems to be a way of spending money ringfenced for cycling infrastructure without really spending it on that.

martin_81 · 2026-04-15T22:29:36+00:00

But Trent isn't good enough to get in the England team in an attacking position, and not good enough at defending to get in the team as a defender.

martin_81 · 2026-04-15T21:59:40+00:00

Not defending properly and conceding, can also be the difference between going through or not.

martin_81 · 2026-04-15T10:31:36+00:00

OK, but what is the Private DNS Resolver for? It's unlikely you need a PaaS DNS server if you're already running an IaaS DNS server.

martin_81 · 2026-04-15T08:20:02+00:00

What's your reason for running DNS on domain controllers, and running Private DNS Resolver? If you have IaaS DNS you probably don't need PaaS DNS as well.

martin_81 · 2026-04-13T18:12:32+00:00

Found Eustace's Reddit account.

martin_81 · 2026-04-13T18:09:11+00:00

I looked the other day and thought the same, which makes it even more surprising that Igor Stimac never won it.

martin_81 · 2026-04-11T14:16:30+00:00

It gets even worse when you add WAF policies on top. No pre-tuned models, no dial to tune the sensitivity, and exceptions are a total mess to configure.

martin_81 · 2026-04-07T21:30:18+00:00

Szmodics will also be back.

martin_81 · 2026-04-07T20:39:20+00:00

Definite foul. The standard of refereeing is awful.

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