{"id":60718,"date":"2021-12-15T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=60718"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:04:30","slug":"being-rich-does-not-make-you-more-generous-it-makes-you-meaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/12\/15\/being-rich-does-not-make-you-more-generous-it-makes-you-meaner\/","title":{"rendered":"Being rich does not make you more generous. It makes you meaner."},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Guardian notes<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n

Approximately 344,000 highest earners who received more than \u00a3175,000 before tax accounted for 17% of the UK\u2019s pre-tax income, including capital gains, over that period but made just 6% of all charitable donations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bening rich clearly does not make you generous: instead it makes you mean.<\/p>\n

And this is getting worse:<\/p>\n

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Incomes of the healthiest have risen, as other evidence also shows.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

However, charitable giving has fallen.<\/p>\n

As Thatcher's children have come to be the rich, and get richer, so the country gets meaner.<\/p>\n

No wonder we get people like Rishi Sunak arguing that new covid boosters require the imposition of austerity<\/a>. This is simply indicative of the self-serving thinking of the very rich in our society.<\/p>\n

And it is because of the harm that these people cause, and the impact that their wealth has on growing inequality that we must tax the multi-millionaires more<\/a>. We do not need their money to pay for public services. What we do need is to stop the power that they have to destroy wellbeing in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Guardian notes this morning: Approximately 344,000 highest earners who received more than \u00a3175,000 before tax accounted for 17% of the UK\u2019s pre-tax income,
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