Do you think we pay far too much tax?

Answer 1

Contrary to everyone else it would seam:

Although I don't like paying tax: national insurance etc, and would rather have the money in my pocket than the governments: I do believe both are a necessary evil!!

The problem for me, is not the amount of tax I pay: but how the tax system is worked: and how those in office spend/waste my/our money!!

We all want better health care: better education/child care: Better Policing: More in benefits: better public transport: All of which sadly costs...

And although we have a benefits system: national health Doctors & Hospitals: free schooling etc...any and everybody complain and want.. more, more, more, and better!!!

But for none of which anybody wants to pay any more for!!

We then have the fools in government who over spend too much on this or that, and under spend on the other!! Then pay over the odds for stupid Ideas like the 'Millennium Centre': and the way over budget 'New Wembley!!

Basics in maths, and common sense it would seam, are a non-requirement for running government departments or the exchequer!! Nor in the minds of those who ask for more, but don't want to have to pay!!

Not enough money: too much to pay for!! Too much to pay for: not enough money!!

Round, and round, and round we go!!

But so long as I have a roof over my head: cloths on my back: and food in my stomach....Who am I to complain? I consider myself to be a lucky one!! There are many who have not: and would cheerfully pay the tax to have what we have here in the UK!!!

P.S

While I understand there are many in the UK who do 'Abuse' the benefits system, and claim money's falsely ( to be polite)... there are many for whom without it: would be well and truly up **** street without a paddle (myself at present included): & whose kids would starve and go unclothed without it!!

If you wish to criticise & complain about those people who live on state benefit: do so for those who use and abuse it & the system: do not paint everybody with the same brush as scroungers!!

Remember one day, you too may be put in the position where you have to claim it: and you will be thankful of it then!!

Answer 2

I think some people pay too little tax. For example, politicains, royalty, celebrities always have expensive Tax Accountants to work out where the tax breaks are so that they do not have to pay on everything.
Unfortunately, the less well off among us cannot afford expensive assistance & therefore do not know how to get around the system.
It seems to me that UK has always been & will always be divided into the Have & the Have-nots.
Ther should be a further Tax Bracket of 60% for those earning over £100K per year.

Answer 3

The problem isn't that we pay too much in taxes. The problem is that the government doesn't spend our tax money as wisely as it should. Let's imagine that I make $50,000 a year--enough to be quite comfortable in most parts of the country. I have a choice to either spend this money on necessities--mortgage payment, car payment, student loan payments--or I can waste it on stuff I don't need and can't afford in light of my other obligations. And if, heaven forbid, I spend more than $50,000 a year, I need to figure out how to make up the shortfall. What the government is doing is spending more than it takes in, so it's having to sell government bonds to investors (a large percentage of which are foreign governments) to finance that deficit spending. Is there enough unnecessary spending that could be cut from the budget to balance it? How much would taxes have to increase to pay the shortfall? Governments can theoretically keep spending more than they take in if other parties are willing to finance debt, but if not, then a decision has to be made as to what can and will be cut.

If I'm not mistaken, most state governments do not have the authority to indefinitely run a budget deficit--New Jersey, for one, has been in the news this week since its new governor, Jon Corzine, has had to close a number of state offices and state-run businesses until the NJ legislature can hammer out a budget deal for this fiscal year. If it can't raise the revenue it needs, it will have to cut expenses until they are in line with expenditures.

So to make a short answer long, we aren't necessarily paying too much in taxes. We're just demanding too much for the amount of tax revenue that the government is taking in, and the government is not spending wisely the revenue it receives.

Answer 4

I do think we pay too much tax when you consider all taxes. There is Federal, State, local, social security tax, medicare tax, sales tax, excise tax, etc.

The reason we pay too much is there are too many losers in this country that sit on thier *** and expect everyone that works to support them. Also, the government is extremely innefficient and wasteful when it comes to spending taxpayer money.

Somebody said earlier that companies don't pay enough tax. But, if companies paid more tax, they would pay employees less and increase thier prices to pay the taxes which would still place the burden on the middle class. So, that is a stupid argument.

Bottom line: we would all pay less tax if there weren't so many lazy bums in America!

Answer 5

Not really, well not "far too much". Billions of pounds need to be spent in order for there to be an efficient army and defence system, good free health care and free education etc.
I do not necessarily think taxes should lesson but I do resent my proportion of taxes that go on people on benefits. Fair enough if they are ill or cannot work, but the percentage of people who are lazy etc should not get them and this money could be put into the NHS etc.
We need to pay taxes, fine people complain etc but they would complain more (in the UK) if there was no free health care or education or we did not have an efficient army.

Answer 6

I think that in proportion to living expenses (especially in London) the tax rate is far too high. Fair enough we need to contribute towards costs like rubbish collection, street lighting etc... but I feel that a lot of our hard earned money ends up lining some rich politicians pockets, or paying out for people who are too lazy to get a job of their own.
Booooooo to high taxes.

Answer 7

Yes, in Western Europe and North America, people pay too much tax in my opinion. How do you think the British goverment affords to pay all those soldiers to go to Iraq, pay for all those military facilities and bombs to invade a poor country? It is your tax which goes to warfare instead of NHS, councils and finally other countries which don't even have acces to clean water.

Answer 8

Yes but considering that we have such a huge deficit, we have to actually raise taxes to get out of it, back when there was a surplus though, we should have just kept the tax rate like it was instead of cutting taxes and spending massive amounts to wipe out the surplus.

Answer 9

And to think our founding fathers were fighting so we wouldn't have to pay taxes. It just shows a country can't survive without taxes =\ We can't really do anything about it.

Answer 10

No. I don't think we pay too much Tax in the UK.

The problem here is that we get nothing in return. Our Government waste it on ridiculous projects.

Answer 11

No, but I do think the tax money is not wisely spent. I'd actually pay more if it would guarentee that the money would be used wisely-for more social programs, universal health care, etc.