Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most of us will pay other kinds of tax, like social security, and if we have children, we might get some tax relief.
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But the plucky statos at the OECD, that's the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, have had a go at comparing average salaries.
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This is Maurice Netley, their head of tax statistics.
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What Morris went on to explain was in most countries, single workers pay more tax, a lot more tax in some countries, than those that are married with children.
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That 39.9% figure for single Germans drops to 21.3% for someone married with two children.
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It is.
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In fact, Greece is the only country where you actually pay more tax if you are married with children.
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Well, you're absolutely right.
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The countries that deduct a lot of tax tend to be the countries that have generous benefits if you're sick or unemployed, and they offer good pensions.
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In places like Chile, where the tax burden is low, workers have to pay a large amount for things like private health care.
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What's interesting about all this is that although in France and Britain and many other countries the top rate of tax has become a highly contentious political issue, in reality very, very few people earn enough to be affected by it.
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What's more important is the overall tax burden on middle earners, which most people are.
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Ruth, the latest figures show that in the last decade, the number of people that died from drug overdoses more than doubled, from 17,000 in the year 2000 to 38,000 in 2010.
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And in fact, in 2009, for the first time, more people died from drug overdoses than from traffic accidents or guns.
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That's true, but there is a clear upward trend in overdose deaths.
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And what the figures also show is that the biggest driver of the increase are deaths relating to legitimate drugs that you can get with a prescription from a doctor, like in the case of Michael Jackson.
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These have trebled over the last ten years.
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Yes, it does.
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In 2010, prescription drugs killed more than 22,000 people in the United States and that's more than twice as many as cocaine and heroin combined.
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But one thing we do need to bear in mind is that in 2012, an estimated 12.5 million people reported using prescription painkillers without supervision from a doctor.
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