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The £100,000 Trap: How Britain Built a System That Punishes Success
Only in Britain Earning £100,000 Makes You Poorer
The mathematics of modern Britain reveal a peculiar achievement: we've constructed a tax system where earning £99,999 leaves you better off than earning £149,000. This isn't a quirk or an oversight. It's the logical endpoint of a state apparatus that views productive citizens primarily as revenue sources to be squeezed, rather than assets to be cultivated.