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   @johngraham6181

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   Tax the rich. Answer for everyone. The Rich pay a lot more in tax already

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   @JeffHall-dd3cl

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   I think colleague’s consultant wife who has a tax bill of £12000 from the HMRC is rich.

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   @ishi2k8

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   Love Michael Dont tax people who make 80k+ more, get the super rich to stop avoiding tax by shutting the loopholes, then you can fund everything properly!

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   @vegannincer8745

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   they outflanked michael but he beat them both off

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   @Sbudre

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   The idea that people will leave if they are taxed more is not consistent with reality. Western Europe and Scandinavia are good examples of this. People are willing to pay for good quality services.

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   @Gilbertodlgg

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   There are patients that can be in front of one doctor in America, UK, and elsewhere, that argument is really stupid. Now this guys in government expect one to be a poor doctor just for the sake of politicians who promise more than they should.

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   @JfK--OBJECTivE

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   Tax the rich, it will solve all our problems. What a lefty idiot. How about make the NHS much more efficient and get rid of the ££££billions wasted every year.

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   @nheather

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   Sorry as a funder and potential customer of the NHS, my conclusion is that it is so fundamentally broken that it barely provides a service. The GP and A&E provision are passable but anything non-critical is essential not-available within any acceptable timescales. It has reached the point that, for the treatment of serious non-critical ailments, there is practical no difference in the level of service whether the NHS are on strike or not. If the NHS is on strike I can’t get appointments but if the NHS isn’t on strike I can’t get appointments either, there is barely any difference.

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   @coopsnz1

   January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

   Michael Walker a wanker , he has no idea who middle class is because he not in the club . Just a lying communist media propaganda where all viewers loser lower class

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    @steph6109

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Or cancel all corrupt contracts within the NHS, lots of money would be saved that way. Also locums cost the NHS 4 times an employed would, and the middle man gets a big slice of that pie

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    @zanyzoo6767

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Love reading all the anti comments on not letting the doctors get the extra money…………….. then when they are in A and E begging for those doctors to help them or a family member, thank you Doctor , thank you. And yet still expect them to do it for less than some one who serves coffee for a living . Tax the one percent more , its that easy

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    @tonybarrett3107

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    The NHS is not fit for purpose, instead of constantly banging on about taxing people and giving it more money, why not rehash it and start again, this man’s a LW stooge

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    @irongalaxy3720

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    This is a great example of the way the right funded broadcast media operates. GBNews is a joke but the BBC do this too. Here you have Michael offer a reasoned logical argument to offer a potential solution, which the hosts respond to with tabloid non sensical tabloid soundbites, like 'who are the rich?'. We know who the rich are. They are people like Sunak who is twice as rich as the King. They are the corporations worth billions that pay no tax. The hosts don't want to actually have a useful debate about how to solve this for the benefit of the majority of people, because their purpose is to promote the agenda of their paymasters, which is to make the very rich, even richer at the expense of everyone else. They want to run the NHS into the ground to justify privatisation, because they stand to make huge profits from that. We lose our right to free health care, something beyond precious and so hard won.

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    @ruthevans1249

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Notice how it’s always “tax the rich” this basically means tax someone who earns more money than me, 😂😂. sounds like a great idea but crushes peoples drive and ambitions to earn more money. Why work your nuts off to pay more than everybody else in tax. Who do they think pays the most tax at the minute, those earning 12,000 a year or those earning 85,000 a year. The tax percentage should be the same for everyone regardless of how much you earn, it may even encourage people to increase their own earnings by working harder

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    @HB-bd7iz

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    GB news correspondents offered no constructive solutions to the problem except criticise Michael for every valid point he made.

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    @xsentfromuk8938

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Nhs is a reflection of what is paid into it… either its not having enough £ paid in or the government need to account for where the £ is.
    I think the public can agree 👍 with this.
    Stop ✋️ attacking staff and start demanding why it's not enough and what the government are going to DO…
    ITS ALL OUR HEALTH ON THE LINE, unless your paying private but even that has NO A&E.

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    @philpayton8965

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Tax the rich is always called for by the drones who don't realise THEY are the rich and equality means reducing your quality of life to that of the most helpless and vulnerable in society.

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    @markhumphries5191

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    I would make PMI compulsory for "the rich" to free up capacity in the NHS and then make a fund available for people like Michael to voluntary pay more tax into for 'NHS pay' and they can then have an annual vote on how to distribute that fund among NHS staff. Instead of moaning about OTHER PEOPLE paying more tax, people can put their money where their mouth is and pay it themselves. I can 100% guarantee Jr Doctors wouldn't be getting a 35% pay boost from that fund. Because people like Michael want to keep their own money for themselves.

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    @damon1957ful

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Typical lets tax tax tax , instead of find out why its costing so much to start with,i work in the nhs and daily cobsmacked at the bad management ,waste full budgeting and the carelessness use of suplies , wastefull

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    @deanbull7767

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Tax the rich even more to pay for the NHS and the UK will lose money every which way, and all things that are funded by tax will suffer because the rich will leave the UK. Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot.

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    @OlFingerBlaster

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Couple of thoughts and questions,

    Do these people sign contracts agreeing to an amount of pay for an amount of hours worked?

    If so then the strike means they are unable to accept there life choices

    Now of course people will say 'unreal that athletes that kick a ball or people that act get paid millions' but the same thing they sign a contract for work. Not there fault they saw that for some reason people get paid more kicking a ball and choose to pursue that life choice.

    People complain which is fine but they choose the work, they accept it or decline it and while they 'want to save lives' or 'do something productive with there life' when the money isn't there they regret the choices and refuse to work. You sign a 'this is what you are worth' document, don't like it then go and do something else. It's that simple.

    Can't accept society then that's on you.

    If more and more people didn't go into the roles then the government would inctivise people choosing these rolls.

    Just a few thoughts

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    @NeilCWCampbell

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Can't imagine the Russian federation liking their mouthpiece saying this

    I just think we should save the NHS by prioritising non Brexit and non conservative voters

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    @stu185

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    I would fund the NHS by cutting ALL non British citizens care….

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    @normie8895

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    People staying in hospital should pay for their accommodation and food, the NHS should become a national medical treatment insurance to pay for independent hospitals similar to academy schools, that would mean each hospital could determine it's own pay structure and staffing arrangements.

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    @mikeheasman2594

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    I have never seen a poor gp. Taxing rich people more will hit them to.

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    @TayWoode

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Why not get all the immigrants that the government claim are doctors and scientists to work as cheap labour instead?

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    @ibme6073

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Many people, many pensioners, are now having to pay for private healthcare because it is impossible to get to see a doctor, so in addition, we should also be taxed more on our pension which, by the way we already were paying tax on when we earned it.

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    @Clansmen673

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    My Dad worked in the NHS as a fire safety officer, one day he needed a new laptop and went out to price one at £500. The guy in charge of funds told him he could only buy one from the people the NHS were contracted with. He told me the exact! exact! same laptop cost them £1500. They even forked out for Fire Doors on toilets which is not needed, Fire doors cost a fortune. That’s what you call money wasted, Ninewells Hospital Dundee

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    @bea1365

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Well it might save some lives. If they are not there to DNAR people without consent or mental capacity assessment. I've had to fight for clients in a hospital in Staffordshire who were being DNAR'd with either of these being done. Not people who were end of life, but who had temporary, recoverable infections. Disgusting. Hippocratic Oath means nothing to these people.

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    @therealpubby15

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    TAX THE RICH. Make earners of over £500k+/y 5-10% worse off and save and improve the NHS on all levels and quite frankly if we implemented that and some of those left in protest of a usable and accessible future prepared free healthcare system for this country than good riddance to them. The argument that they’ll up and leave over this is a scare tactic that puppets and proponents for the lucky few use to distract and try to find a way to make the rest of us pay for it instead when the impact doesn’t affect those affluent and wealthy enough to be affected in any major way bar not being able to afford a second conservatory for their summer home versus having to choose to be fed or heated it’s disgusting.

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    @ruthbashford3176

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Poor junior doctors will be going to food banks next.

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    @truckerfromreno

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Tax the middle class lefties more.

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    @geehammer1511

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    I agree the rich should get taxed more because they can afford it, football players, F1 drivers (who hide in tax havens) & BBC employees could easily be able to since they earn millions every year.

    Seems like the these two presenters are in that 80k+ bracket so they don't like the idea of helping the NHS.

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    @IainWisdom

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Easy for dean to moralise wen he isn't in healthcare

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    @ruthbashford3176

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    I would have agreed once that the rich should pay more towards the NHS but now I know how much money is actually spent on it. The waste in the NHS is horrendous

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    @iansinclair7581

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Self entitled prat’s. 30K plus overtime, good pension is not a bad starting pay for a half trained person. You start at the bottom and work your way up. In the recent budget that idiot Hunt reversed the pension pot rules that limited how much you can put in to your pension. Doctors are retiring early because they have reached their max. You tell me how many other sections of society are able to do this. It took me 4 sets of exams and 10 years approx experience to obtain my final qualification and you never stop learning.

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    @meatfeast335

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Scrap the nhs

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    @Avidcomp

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    "ends justify the means" – spoken like another communist. Better to close the NHS

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    @stephenle-surf9893

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    I make two pounds an hour less than a junior doctor working in a warehouse. And I'm sure as hell not saving lives.

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    @Tigolbitties69

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Taxing the rich more?? That’s low level thinking to be honest. I’d expect to hear this by a teenager with limited economical understanding….by rich who do you mean? Because let’s be clear. By “rich” This shouldn’t mean taxing SME businesses more which this country is currently doing…look at corp tax, 25% now?? All that does is batter our economy and mean companies stagnate, can’t grow and employ less people. If we want a better economy the UK needs to become a tax haven for businesses like Ireland or Dubai has. Hence why Ireland is flying now! The NHS salaries get solved by having a larger budget for the NHS public sector salaries, simply better money management of the cash pot, I.e reducing other areas. Not to mention, the public sector is massively “over employed” via administrative workers who are twiddling their thumbs not really contributing (acquire better tech solutions to deal with this) It’s better to employ fewer overall, but pay the skilled workers much more money such as medical staff – as opposed to 55 year old admin manager John who pushes paper around. This isn’t achieved by making rich people poorer. Do people not agree, that you should also have the opportunity in this country to work hard and live the financial dream?….or do we want to limit the chances of financial success for people now? So everyone is equally as poor. Because we know how that communistic thinking goes.

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    @Julia36D

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    Unfortunately “taxing the rich” only works on people like me who are just over the threshold and having the s*** taxed out of us already with absolutely no improvement in services at all! This man thinks people on 80k are rolling in cash. Panel had it absolutely right; 28% of tax is coming from the 1%. Maybe try fixing your broken organisation which misappropriates money on a grand scale before deciding to screw the people who fund you even more.

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    @malcolmrothery9861

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    The NHS is dead in the water and needs to be scrapped. The country is bankrupt and cannot afford this type of pay increase that will just push up inflation and interest rates. We are all, quite frankly, f****d. The UK economy is worse than Russia apparently. That speaks volumes about Britain in the 21st century – a little backwater that no on really gives a damn about.

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    @SirRobinDeSway

    January 16, 2024 at 11:57 pm

    “First do no harm”. Only a few weeks ago Rishi Sunak was telling us that the government has given 3 billion pounds….of OUR money to Ukraine in the form of weapons, bombs, missiles and training to kill Russians and prolong this dreadful war. Think that through for a minute. Billions

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