If Starmer suggested taxing football income you would be being a bit daft if you claimed that it was going to hurt the guy you just replied to on the grounds that he earned fifty quid from football.

“But he’s a worker too and he’s not rich and you promised not to tax him” is sillier than saying that he isn’t covered by the promise to not raise taxes on working people.

That’s because (and this is the bit that’s not quite got through to you somehow yet) the vast, vast, vast majority of his income is from working, not from football.

Lol whatever you say.

No he did not.

He said that in his definition of working taxes. No, that person is not a worker.

And the Tory party agrees. That is why they call it capital gains tax rather than income.

This whole argument has been stirred by the right wing press since the election. Tories have constantly tried to claim the manifesto promise of no rise in working taxes means no tax rises at all.

It is an out right lie. And Starmer et al make it worse by refusing to address it.

Nothing the Tory party says or believes on taxation matches these claims. It is just a desperate attempt to sow division.

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Why are you so cross about this? He only means that he’ll tax their unearned income a bit more, and if they really are working people out won’t affect them much.

The extent to which it affects workers is the extent to which they aren’t workers. It isn’t the logical gotcha you seem to think it is.

No he did not.

He said people who own any stock should be excluded from “working taxes"

More accurately, he said they do not fit his definition of working taxes. Because that was the question the telegraph was trying to miss represent.

As does the Tory party and every government since the 1950s. That is why we have capital gains tax as well as income tax.

This whole argument is nothing but absurdly biased reporting from right wing press. Intentionally launched to try and sow division in the electorate. Just like every Tory tactic since the election was announced.