Now the Socialists are in power in France will the economy race forward?

[Jason Bourne]

Well I suppose deep down you do, because he and many others no longer each pay millions of pounds of tax to the UK, so the rest of us have to pay more instead. But it makes some folk feel better knowing that they won't be spending their money in British shops and providing jobs for British people.

 

Correction:

 

But it makes some folk feel better knowing that they won't be able to threaten to destroy the British economy again unless we bail them out with hundreds of billions of pounds of British taxpayers money.

[puisseguin]

What a load of cods! They evade taxes. They never pay what they should!

 

Good riddance to the scroungers!

 

I can see you are a real thinker.

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2107031/UK-Budget-2012-Top-1-earners-contribute-income-tax.html

 

Top 1% of earners contribute almost a third of all the income tax paid into Treasury coffers

 

By James Chapman

UPDATED: 16:35, 27 February 2012

 

 

The highest-earning 1 per cent of Britons pay almost 30 per cent of all income taxes, according to research.

 

The 308,000 on the 50p top rate – who earn more than £150,000 – pay £47billion a year to the Treasury.

 

Since 2000, the share of tax paid by the highest earners has risen from 22.2 to 27.7 per cent.

 

 

 

So it woud be no loss if they cleared off and that 30% came from folk on benefits.

[andygardener]

Some people ought to take a look at where our current tax takes come from. The rich pay for most of it, so i'd be a little wary in driving them out unless you want 50% tax rates yourself.

 

edit puisseguin beat me to it.

[puisseguin]

Correction:

 

But it makes some folk feel better knowing that they won't be able to threaten to destroy the British economy again unless we bail them out with hundreds of billions of pounds of British taxpayers money.

 

You seem to have a major problem telling the difference between an individual and a bank. Individuals are the ones who get on planes and move abroad.

[I1L2T3]

Some people ought to take a look at where our current tax takes come from. The rich pay for most of it, so i'd be a little wary in driving them out unless you want 50% tax rates yourself.

 

edit puisseguin beat me to it.

 

Let them go if they want to.

[puisseguin]

Some people ought to take a look at where our current tax takes come from. The rich pay for most of it, so i'd be a little wary in driving them out unless you want 50% tax rates yourself.

 

edit puisseguin beat me to it.

 

And that takes no account of the VAT and other tax revenue when they spend the reast of their income.

[Magnese]

I can see you are a real thinker.

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2107031/UK-Budget-2012-Top-1-earners-contribute-income-tax.html

 

Top 1% of earners contribute almost a third of all the income tax paid into Treasury coffers

 

By James Chapman

UPDATED: 16:35, 27 February 2012

 

 

The highest-earning 1 per cent of Britons pay almost 30 per cent of all income taxes, according to research.

 

The 308,000 on the 50p top rate – who earn more than £150,000 – pay £47billion a year to the Treasury.

 

Since 2000, the share of tax paid by the highest earners has risen from 22.2 to 27.7 per cent.

 

 

 

So it woud be no loss if they cleared off and that 30% came from folk on benefits.

 

 

You believe that rubbish if it pleases you to do so.

[Magnese]

We should hound them out of Europe.

[andygardener]

Let them go if they want to.

 

Fortunately as we don't have a mental socialist government that's not the issue, it's how much will we take in extra tax from welcoming the wealthy French to Londres.

[I1L2T3]

We should hound them out of Europe.

 

I wouldn't go that far. If they are EU citizens they have freedom to settle almost anywhere in the EU. So let them go.

 

They won't go of course. It's all hot air. And if they do go others will take their place.