A £70,000 salary defines you as rich?

[SWv2]

What utter tosh. £70,000 equates to around £4,000 per month, net. Call it £1,000 per week.

Now let's subtract essentials: Cigarettes and booze, £210 per week. Food, £200 per week.

So we're left with £590 per week to pay for motoring expenses, eating out, holidays and staff?

Fúck off. Impossible.

Obviously you can live reasonably comfortably on £70k (assuming you don't have a mortgage, naturally) but 'rich'? Absolute nonsense.

Shows how out of touch with ordinary people the left is.

Are you confusing material wealth and perceived social status with the intangible matters of life where one can truly say to be “rich”?

Happiness, health, inner peace.

You may profess in public to have loads of money and live the life of a bon viveur but given you have this week unfortunately suffered a mini-stroke (TIA, remember this) you are indeed far from rich.

[Pat Vegas]

That 1% work hard to create wealth do they? The people that work for them may well do and it is hardly a badge of honour particularly if you are intent on keeping all of that created wealth for yourself.

Anyway, I hardly think 70 grand puts you in the top 1%. Lets stay on topic here.....

Just over 5% of tax payers in the UK earn over 70 grand.

[Peter]

Are you confusing material wealth and perceived social status with the intangible matters of life where one can truly say to be “rich”?

Happiness, health, inner peace.

You may profess in public to have loads of money and live the life of a bon viveur but given you have this week unfortunately suffered a mini-stroke (TIA, remember this) you are indeed far from rich.

You can't tax happiness or good health. Pity

[Pat Vegas]

Are you confusing material wealth and perceived social status with the intangible matters of life where one can truly say to be “rich”?

Happiness, health, inner peace.

You may profess in public to have loads of money and live the life of a bon viveur but given you have this week unfortunately suffered a mini-stroke (TIA, remember this) you are indeed far from rich.

What is the difference between Rich and Wealthy?

[Pat Vegas]

You can't tax happiness or good health. Pity

But a lot of taxes go to sadness and bad health.

[Peter]

Just over 5% of tax payers in the UK earn over 70 grand.

There you go. Its irrelevant to the discussion.

[Pat Vegas]

There you go. Its irrelevant to the discussion.

It's a bit flawed though. What if you have a couple where won earns 70k and the other doesn't work.

Or a couple who both earn under 70k but combined are over? are they rich?

[Peter]

But a lot of taxes go to sadness and bad health.

Well of course. Do you want people to be sad?

[Peter]

It's a bit flawed though. What if you have a couple where won earns 70k and the other doesn't work.

Or a couple who both earn under 70k but combined are over? are they rich?

In neither circumstance are they rich. They still couldn't buy a **** house in an average area of London.

[Pat Vegas]

Well of course. Do you want people to be sad?

I am very selfish about things.

That's why I never understood the outcry NHS spending and 'WHAT ABOUT THE NURSES?' probably as I am ignorant.

Surely you know what you are getting yourself into when you sign up