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Lower said:
If you’re suggesting my post is a fairy tale, I can assure you it’s not.
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He thinks your dad was lucky. Everyone knows accountants don’t do real work for a living. Just feeding off other people’s work. Like lawyers.

Your dad should have got a proper job like union rep.
 
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Brigadier said:
The country that gave you an opportunity to go about amassing your fortune without worry of being kidnapped, extorted, left destitute due to illness or accident.........
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Were you in a different queue then when all this opportunity was being handed out?
 
Lower said:
Through sheer bloody hard work he worked his way up to become a partner in one of the big 4 accountancy firms, but died 6 months after retiring at 63.
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A brother in law trained with Peat Marwick and was eventually a partner with KPMG, he mourns the loss of several colleagues who died in their sixties through heart attacks. An incredibly high pressure job.
 
fillyboy said:
A brother in law trained with Peat Marwick and was eventually a partner with KPMG, he mourns the loss of several colleagues who died in their sixties through heart attacks. An incredibly high pressure job.
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Coincidentally , my father became a partner with a firm called Thompson McClintock that merged with Peat Marwick to become Marwick Mclintock that then merged with other firms to form KPMG.

My father resigned some years after it became KPMG after suffering from what at the time was called a stress related mental breakdown. He fully recovered, but in those days ‘mental weakness’ was frowned upon so he was ‘encouraged’ to resign.

It was an incredibly high pressure, high stress job.
 
carmanmemoranda said:
I understand you, and others, want to pay less tax. We all do, but if we want to live in a decent society we all need to chip in, some more than others because of common sense. A decent society is worth paying for

But explain where you think the tax take should actually come from.
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I completely agree we all need to contribute and that's the issue, i get it, I've been there lugging lorry loads of plasterboard week in week out, felt i worked harder than ever, but honestly anyone can do that job as long as you are physically fit, does that warrant a six figure salary? No.
However alongside that job i was studying hard for a niche few set of skills which did reward me, now should i be penalised for that by being viewed as some as 'fortunate' or whilst they were out on holiday or just relaxing i was still working studying 24/7 it felt like. I strongly believe hard work rewards eventually. And then those people should not be eventually penalised with excessive taxes, what's the incentive to work hard when you're instead seen as a cash cow to contribute to the underachieving or then you have the people who just can't be bothered, have many kids and just claim off the state. I can tell you for sure I've contributed many times over more than most to the system, but i get fck all back, yet I'm a huge contributor to paying for a 'decent' society.
For example id like to pay for private health through my own company, but no that's classed as BENEFIT in Kind. How utterly ****ed up is that.

So i call my GP for an appointment as a massive contributor to the system id like someone to keep me running and healthy, but no i have a 6week wait for an appointment, all that money I've contributed has been wasted and squandered? Why can't i get an appointment. But if i want to use my own private health care through my company its perceived as a perk or benefit that i want to alleviate the healthcare ive already paid for and pay for it myself!
Its utterly ****ed up you couldn't make it up yet we just let it go by.
Perhaps that's why some of us are more successful because we don't accept this in our way of life. We strive for better, despite the system constantly trying to pull us back down.

How about 'wow we got a good one here she's contributed massively all her life lets make sure she stays healthy and working...' as opposed to no lets just tax her more because she's earning more, and then if she tries to take out her own private health care lets tax that too.

Can you honestly say that's right?
 
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festive said:
And then those people should not be eventually penalised with excessive taxes
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"Excessive" is subjective, I pay more than most as well but don't moan about it. Governments decide how tax is raised, and there isn't much difference between the main parties.
 
festive said:
I completely agree we all need to contribute and that's the issue, i get it, I've been there lugging lorry loads of plasterboard week in week out, felt i worked harder than ever, but honestly anyone can do that job as long as you are physically fit, does that warrant a six figure salary? No.
However alongside that job i was studying hard for a niche few set of skills which did reward me, now should i be penalised for that by being viewed as some as 'fortunate' or whilst they were out on holiday or just relaxing i was still working studying 24/7 it felt like. I strongly believe hard work rewards eventually. And then those people should not be eventually penalised with excessive taxes, what's the incentive to work hard when you're instead seen as a cash cow to contribute to the underachieving or then you have the people who just can't be bothered, have many kids and just claim off the state. I can tell you for sure I've contributed many times over more than most to the system, but i get fck all back, yet I'm a huge contributor to paying for a 'decent' society.
For example id like to pay for private health through my own company, but no that's classed as BENEFIT in Kind. How utterly ****ed up is that.

So i call my GP for an appointment as a massive contributor to the system id like someone to keep me running and healthy, but no i have a 6week wait for an appointment, all that money I've contributed has been wasted and squandered? Why can't i get an appointment. But if i want to use my own private health care through my company its perceived as a perk or benefit that i want to alleviate the healthcare ive already paid for and pay for it myself!
Its utterly ****ed up you couldn't make it up yet we just let it go by.
Perhaps that's why some of us are more successful because we don't accept this in our way of life. We strive for better, despite the system constantly trying to pull us back down.

How about 'wow we got a good one here she's contributed massively all her life lets make sure she stays healthy and working...' as opposed to no lets just tax her more because she's earning more, and then if she tries to take out her own private health care lets tax that too.

Can you honestly say that's right?
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Total self serving rubbish.. why should you get a tax break for private health... why should I not jump the queue. are you special ? and l if its a six week wait evidently your GP doesn't think its urgent.

I pay for my private health care from my taxed salary, why shouldn't you...
 
festive said:
I completely agree we all need to contribute and that's the issue, i get it, I've been there lugging lorry loads of plasterboard week in week out, felt i worked harder than ever, but honestly anyone can do that job as long as you are physically fit, does that warrant a six figure salary? No.
However alongside that job i was studying hard for a niche few set of skills which did reward me, now should i be penalised for that by being viewed as some as 'fortunate' or whilst they were out on holiday or just relaxing i was still working studying 24/7 it felt like. I strongly believe hard work rewards eventually. And then those people should not be eventually penalised with excessive taxes, what's the incentive to work hard when you're instead seen as a cash cow to contribute to the underachieving or then you have the people who just can't be bothered, have many kids and just claim off the state. I can tell you for sure I've contributed many times over more than most to the system, but i get fck all back, yet I'm a huge contributor to paying for a 'decent' society.
For example id like to pay for private health through my own company, but no that's classed as BENEFIT in Kind. How utterly ****ed up is that.

So i call my GP for an appointment as a massive contributor to the system id like someone to keep me running and healthy, but no i have a 6week wait for an appointment, all that money I've contributed has been wasted and squandered? Why can't i get an appointment. But if i want to use my own private health care through my company its perceived as a perk or benefit that i want to alleviate the healthcare ive already paid for and pay for it myself!
Its utterly ****ed up you couldn't make it up yet we just let it go by.
Perhaps that's why some of us are more successful because we don't accept this in our way of life. We strive for better, despite the system constantly trying to pull us back down.

How about 'wow we got a good one here she's contributed massively all her life lets make sure she stays healthy and working...' as opposed to no lets just tax her more because she's earning more, and then if she tries to take out her own private health care lets tax that too.

Can you honestly say that's right?
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Long story and I know tax hurts.

But who should pay more instead ?
 
denso13 said:
"Excessive" is subjective, I pay more than most as well but don't moan about it. Governments decide how tax is raised, and there isn't much difference between the main parties.
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A lot of people have grasped the concept that it is better to have plenty of money and pay some tax

Than not.

A few dishonest ranters like the boatyard biker try to pretend that having lots of money is a woeful burden,
 
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