Die Reichen Großbritanniens müssen die Last des Wiederaufbaus der „kaputten“ öffentlichen Dienstleistungen auf sich nehmen, sagt Rachel Reeves
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/28/wealthy-shoulder-burden-creaky-public-services-rachel-reeves-chancellor-budget
Von Low_Map4314
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Shame the budget mostly increased the taxes of upper working and middle class people then
Says Chancellor who just announced a budget addressing none of this
Rebuilding public services or shouldering the burden of a spiralling welfare bill her back benchers refuse to tackle.
This statement is correct.
Shame she completely ignored the wealthy in the budget
So grasp the nettle and fucking do something about it rather than say this every few months but make no changes reflecting it?
She says… while leaving many of Britain’s key failing public services privately owned and generating huge profits for the wealthy
I swear pre election it was the tax avoiding multinationals that were going to shoulder the burden.
In the case the wealthy is always people on 150-200k not the actual mega wealthy.
Her disingenuous waffle has almost nothing to do with the budget she just announced! The only bit that lines up I can see is the implied „young people can get fucked“
Top 10% of earners pay over 60% of all income tax – that not enough? Britains hatred of the rich (and I don’t mean the 0.01% rich, but the high earners) brings zero benefit.
I too can say what I want while doing absolutely nothing to fix it
I’m not fucking wealthy though!
Can someone put an official definition of wealthy out there?
Then why did you do something about it in the budget? Stupid woman.
This government is simply filling up the pockets of the public sector. It turns out they were not for workers at all.
Is there a way to fix the NHS? I have long been a defender of it, but having had to experience second hand (via my partner) in last 6 weeks, the service is appalling in my local hospital.
Its all because they have shut every A&E around us, so you sit in pain for over 14 hours to get a bed. The only way to fix it is increasing capacity, but there clearly isn’t the money to do so.
Sure seems like it’s mostly middle income young people and graduates shouldering the burden
There comes a point where the question “where do we get the money from?” stops being asked and “where is the money going?” Needs to be answered.
So why did she target the middle ( the ones who elected her )
Let’s see what’s left of their local base come May. ( Not that Keith and Rachel care …… )
Not very much I think.
Hammering the middle class because you’re too afraid of taxing your mates is not Britains wealthy paying
While wasting literally billions on asylum seekers, it’s not going to happen.
Since Covid the only key skill that all governments have excelled in is how to divert public money into schemes that they, their mates and sponsors directly benefit from.
Effectively they realised just how rich they could get through Covid and now they want to extend that.
Absolute cowards. Freezing tax thresholds, aka tax rises through the back door. Genuinely awful government.
I agree. The problem is her definition of wealthy.
The middle class are not the wealthy people in this country.
Robin Hood economics.
Growth can shoulder the burden of rebuilding public services, but Reeves discourages growth by taxing those who work to pay for those who don’t contribute.
They say ‘wealthy’ so people think multimillionaires and then it’s everyone on £50k+
What fucked me off in the last budget is it was take take take. She attacked my wages, my savings, my EV, my pension.
After years of saying ‚things are hard‘ you absolutely batter me.
After paying out a fortune on pensions, and telling younger to get private ones. You come after it.
After years of environmental pledges, and telling folks to go green. You come after it.
Reeves is a problem to growth.
I make £34k a year – this should be a comfortable wage for a single person but I feel less well off than 5 years ago when I was making £24k. My salary had increased due to working hard and getting promoted, which is what we’re constantly told to do to get ahead.
Rent used to be £350, now it’s £750. Council tax was £75, now it’s £110. Energy was £80, now it’s £120. A week’s shopping used to be £40 now it’s £60. I don’t know how much longer people can take the squeeze.
I am pro immigration, pro welfare state, a real “leftie” but even I can see why people like Reform. Yes, I think they’re a horrible party with horrible values but they are tapping into people’s anger of the last 5 years in a way the main parties never can.m
All that to say if the wealthy should pay, why are MY taxes stealthily going up instead?
Even if I earned 150k per year. After tax, it would take me 20 years of saving every penny to have as much net worth as a pensioner who bought a modest house in London for 30k, 30 years ago.
Wealth needs defining.
That’s what you say, but that’s not what your budget says. Not is it how the Labour Party act.
Lots of highly trained, talented, wealthy individuals will just go to America, Australia, Dubai etc. Then we’ll be in a bigger mess than we are today.
We cannot get out of this situation without challenging spending and growing the economy.
The UK economy grew 1.5% in 2025. But pensions, minimum wage, and a whole host of other benefits and spending have automatically increased by inflation at 4.8%.
Year after year the government will need to increase tax take from the productive to fund this, and it will break.
By „wealthy“ she means everyone earning between £13/h and £100k. Not the people who earn the big bucks.
Is she stupid? Just oblivious? Trolling?
I don’t get why anyone would tax middle earners this much and then come out with this statement.
It’s like living in a Morten Morland cartoon.
I’ve been lucky. Earning circa £140k. We get no child care, we pay every penny of tax due.
But for everything over £100k I pay 60% tax. The extra hours and work really aren’t worth it. I accept when I get to 67 the pension won’t exist.
I pay heavily into my private pension. Now they come for this.
We literally spend everything they didn’t tax. My partner doesn’t work. We do the house, the garden, have more meals out. Instead we do the opposite we pay the mortgage and save for retirement. Again we are lucky. We know it.
But surely lifting the boot from people in our bracket does more for the economy than whatever the fuck this is.
People earning millions way a lower % than I do. How is that fair?!
Absolutely shameless rhetoric when people who aren’t even politically engaged knows this government won’t adequately tax the wealthy.
The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor and the middle gets squeezed some more. Yay.
Nber brexit study claims it’s costing us between 6-8% in lost gdp. Roughly £90bn a year. If you are complaining about the budget and people getting squeezed, stop. Enjoy all that wonderful sovereignty and think about all that control you took back.
How about just closing a few tax loop holes for the giant businesses?
Who do you mean by wealthy Rachel? PAYE tax payers on £60k?
Then how about they actually tax the wealthy, and i don’t mean those earning over 100k or paying their way, I mean those who go out of their way to avoid tax. You know, the obscenely wealthy. Make it impossible for them to avoid tax.
For those of you who say they’ll leave, so what? They’re contributing nothing anyway, so if they leave then we lost nothing.