This is like asking “since when does income tax reduce your disposable income”. You cost your employer a pot of money per year & X% of that goes in taxes. Whether some portion of that X% appears … (View Post)

The student loan thing is particularly galling since (as I understand things, I’m sure there was a recent article about this in the Economist or somewhere similar?) it would have been /cheaper/ just … (View Post)

Don’t forget that your employer is paying 13.8% NI on top of your salary for the privilege of employing you. Real income tax rates on employment are punishingly high in this country, especially for t… (View Post)

These kids got forcibly “voluntold“ into lockdowns in order to protect the elder generation. That same elder generation now seems to think they should all be forcibly “voluntold” into national servic… (View Post)

It would not be the first time the UK legal system convicted an innocent woman of terrible crimes on the basis of “expert” medical evidence & dubious statistics. (View Post)