Interesting Links for 21-05-2014

[fearmeforiampink]

• Will UKIP make me Richer, or will UKIP make me Poorer?
  AKA 'flat taxes are regressive'
  (tags: Interesting money UKIP politics economics tax UK )
• Disabled students could be 'shut out' by government cuts
  Some of the support I got through the Disabled Students Allowance, particularly the PDA it got me, were a real help in getting myself organised, actually managing to make all the things I was supposed to, etc. I think I'd've had a much harder time without them.
  (tags: disability cuts benefits university education UK money equality )
• What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is About Pleasure? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
  (tags: Interesting sex culture education children humanity;-we-are-a-fucked-up-species )

Comments

[matgb]

Not going to comment there, but I do feel if someone wants to debunk a particular policy, they ought to understand it and check the basic facts. The UKIP policy is for a flat tax on all earnings above 12,500 p/a, not on all earnings, ergo for most people it would increase their take home pay. And yes, I have checked the maths on it, I know who did the original paper.

Large number of people seem to want to willfully misrepresent what the policy is, which would make it easy for a UKIP rep to destroy their argument, if there were any UKIP reps with the intelligence to actually read the policy paper.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I think the tax calcs on the current tax system in the article are wrong. I think the author has not applied the personal allowance correctly.