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This thread went off on one it seems but all valid debates I guess. Arguement between people all living a fair and equal life regardless of social standings or what people deserve from their contribution to work and their earnings.

First of all @ soleron... You mentioned about a 22k wage person does not deserve the standard of living of a 40k wage person?

I feel I deserve a better standard of living then a lot of people at my work for earning more then me because I do infact work harder then them. I'm a skilled labourer new(ish) to the job, does it mean I work less or not as hard as them? feck no looking at my overtime. They've just been here longer. But that is personal circumstances, there are many people out there that have worked hard in their life and earn wages that make sense to that.

It's hard to define a line of what is fair based on with work ethic, education or earnings.

 

@SciFiBoy

You taxation thing from earlier was flawed but I got the gist of it, people seems to take the wrong idea I think and explain a 20k person getting takex more means they earn less. Problem was that you/them defined the taxation brackets as definate. This is always unfair. If however you made a exponential % taxation on wages, this might solve it. The currently tax system works on the money you earn up tocertain amounts. Up tp 5000 taxed at 5% then the next 15k is taxed at 20% so taxation is round overall to 17.5 or whatever. This is fair for whatever you earn.

 

@Soleron about recent Euroelections and local elections.

Bad news overall for Labour but expected. People/media are loosing faith with them, whether this is Gordon Brown is soemthign else. He is still okay to me, the people who quit his cabinet and whined have none of my respect. MPs who cannot admit to their wrong doing saying 'It wasn't wrong' in the Expenses scandals have no respect either.

Eitherway the elections have given interesting results and I wonder how they will pan out. UKIP will do nothing in Europe. I'm a full supporter of the EU until they stop supporting our farmers because our goverment doesn't. Also, I'd like more research put into saving bees.



Hmm, pie.