If you make millions of dollars a year I feel that the amount it would hinder your lifestyle is negligible. I feel it is a small price to pay for somebody that benefited so much from the system that allows them to be so comfortable. I feel as human beings we have an obligation to help those that are trying but also struggle a lot.
It is a small price. For you.
I got annoyed enough to look up last years end of year figures.
Gross income for the business - £373,474
Net income to me - £98.578, after wages, business taxes and graft.
Tax - £6500 for the NHS. £21,376 in personal tax.
Supposed amount for us to live on: £70,702.
Remove the kid's trust fund - to pay for her education - £64,702
Hey - I made £20 per hour, at 60 hours per week! Not counting the extra 30 hours a week doing writing jobs to make up the wages in the quiet times. My staff - 4 people and rock solid - have not taken a raise in 4 years. They are hurting hard, even with using the cash and carry discount card to pick up cheap (good) food. I'll not let them go unless they want to - but that also takes skin off me. You think I am not going to slip a hundred or so into the pay packet for a kid's birthday or an anniversary?
I am sitting pretty here. Only have mortgages on 3 (small) homes, since my kids are under employed and depreciation to worry about. Gives us about 1000 a month to live on.
Now you know why I run the frugal recipes thread.
Pay attention to it all, not just the number.