Winseer:
Sooner or later - working folk in all lines of toil will realize that earning £12ph and losing a third of it to tax and insurance puts you on <£9ph takehome, which is below minimum wages really, ain’t it?
(Anyone on base rate tax, for example working pensioners…)
First of all you don’t pay a third. Secondly no it doesn’t put you below minimim wage because the minimum wage figure is specified as the gross hourly rate, not net.
On the other hand, actually BEING on minimum wages these days - not only sees one paying little or no NICs and Income tax, but also qualifies for certain benefit top-ups, especially if you have tribes of kids, brudder coloured skin, any random non-christian faith, or are diverse enough to be considerered “honorary non-white”…
Oh look, Winseer is being back to being the usual prejudiced racist bigot again. You are aware we’re no longer living in the 1970s?