Am I out of touch?
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Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
My missus is a nurse here in Canada and I tried to talk her into moving to Liverpool with me but the state of the NHS made it a non-starter.
It is an utter pisstake what's going on with the NHS. Footballers wages aren't to blame, it's the tax system and people not paying a fair share when they make astronomical figures like that.
I've no problem with someone making 190k a week so long as it gets taxed to death to support the rest of society that is paying for that wage.
It is an utter pisstake what's going on with the NHS. Footballers wages aren't to blame, it's the tax system and people not paying a fair share when they make astronomical figures like that.
I've no problem with someone making 190k a week so long as it gets taxed to death to support the rest of society that is paying for that wage.
Frang
Player Valuation: £70m
It's still 95k a week in tax that, but your right, nobody needs to be earning 95k a week after tax. 10k is enough for anyone
A ridiculous argument that has been done to death. It has already been tried and it doesn't work.
So everyone should only be paid however much somebody says that they "need" to earn? And just who decides that?
YoboCopter
Player Valuation: £50m
Binman on same as messi
Sounds legit
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
Who said anything about controlling how much they get paid? Pay them what you want but tax it big time.
Or do you not like taxes and nurses mate?
Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £40m
As well as Bale, there is the Neymar & Ozil scenarios that are beginning to look the same. Wages so high that other clubs are beginning to baulk at taking them on. Could start happening to other high earners in their mid-to-late 20s in the forthcoming years.
49ers
Player Valuation: £20m
Not really.
A fair taxation system usnt what we have and I'm not sure it has been.
The nurse gets taxed at source and pays the full whack.
The wealthy footballer/actor/musician pays an account to end up paying less percentage wise then a nurse.
I don't mind anyone earning a huge wage but I'd like them to pay as much in tax percentage wise as anybody else
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Diogenes the Cynic
Player Valuation: £40m
Nurses are in a lot better position than most of society when it comes to the job market.
There's a national deficit of nurses across the country in the NHS and private organisations.
I've been a nurse for almost 15 years, worked all over the place in practically every environment and I feel lucky to have been able to gain that experience.
Once you qualify you can just pick up sticks and go where you want. I did a couple of years in the NHS then went to a private low secure hospital for a while then decided I wanted to live by the sea for a bit and took a job in Torquay.
The lack of nurses means it's a sellers market, with private companies i always negotiate a salary following a job offer and usually get more than the advertised wage.
It's a great career if you want to advance, ive been a charge nurse on an addictions ward, managed an acute mental health ward for a couple of years then became a hospital manager then acute services manager.
If you're flexible, confident and good at your job you can basically go as far as you want.
Personally I hated my path in the end, i should have stayed a ward manager that was my favourite job with my team and on the floor running it with them every day.
But you never know til you try, im just doing private assessment work at the moment and doing a couple of bank shifts a month on whatever ward needs me. I love the semi chaos and camaraderie of a hospital and I keep up to date clinically.
Nurses get crap starting wages in the NHS. That's a fact. If you just after money I know nurses earning a small fortune doing agency work.
There's a lot of professions a lot worse off than nursing, if you are good you'll always get a job and your options are endless.
There's a national deficit of nurses across the country in the NHS and private organisations.
I've been a nurse for almost 15 years, worked all over the place in practically every environment and I feel lucky to have been able to gain that experience.
Once you qualify you can just pick up sticks and go where you want. I did a couple of years in the NHS then went to a private low secure hospital for a while then decided I wanted to live by the sea for a bit and took a job in Torquay.
The lack of nurses means it's a sellers market, with private companies i always negotiate a salary following a job offer and usually get more than the advertised wage.
It's a great career if you want to advance, ive been a charge nurse on an addictions ward, managed an acute mental health ward for a couple of years then became a hospital manager then acute services manager.
If you're flexible, confident and good at your job you can basically go as far as you want.
Personally I hated my path in the end, i should have stayed a ward manager that was my favourite job with my team and on the floor running it with them every day.
But you never know til you try, im just doing private assessment work at the moment and doing a couple of bank shifts a month on whatever ward needs me. I love the semi chaos and camaraderie of a hospital and I keep up to date clinically.
Nurses get crap starting wages in the NHS. That's a fact. If you just after money I know nurses earning a small fortune doing agency work.
There's a lot of professions a lot worse off than nursing, if you are good you'll always get a job and your options are endless.
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And where in my post did I suggest I didn't like nurses, or anyone for that matter. What I don't like is anyone trying to tell someone else that they are getting paid too much because it's none of their business how much anyone else gets paid. It's just envy.
was it not done in one of the US's most success periods economically
I'm with you on the tax system being unfair. This is because it has become so complicated it has become riddled with loopholes that can be exploited by those with enough money to employ a tax accountant. A simpified system would bring some fairness into the system.
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