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It’s time to stop pushing false narratives. The rich benefit the UK economy. We need them. By Lane Clark of TPP.
“The rich don’t pay any tax.”
“Kick them out.”
“We don’t need them.”
I hear this kind of rhetoric far too often, and frankly, it concerns me, not because I have some ideological loyalty to the rich, but because I have a loyalty to reality, to numbers, to outcomes.
Here’s the reality:
The top 1% of UK earners now contribute over 28% of total income tax.
Let that sink in.
That’s one in every four pounds of income tax paid by just one in every hundred people.
And we haven’t even mentioned:
Capital gains tax
Inheritance tax
Corporation tax
VAT on high spending
Stamp duty from property purchases.
So when we start creating policies that drive these people out of the UK, ask yourself this:
Who’s left holding the tab?
The answer is simple:
You are.
Middle earners. Small business owners. Employees. Parents. The real backbone of this economy.
This isn’t a defence of wealth hoarding. It’s a call for reasoned, fact-based conversation.
Because unless we face the numbers head-on, we’ll keep pushing narratives that sound popular, and feel good, but ultimately hurt the very people they claim to protect.
Let’s have an honest conversation:
