A couple on £225k told the Telegraph they paid too much tax to have children and these 17 A++ responses all come tax free
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Don’t talk shite…that’s £135k take home if you can’t live on that comfortably your expenses are out of control.
— Sean (@Srooney67) January 10, 2026
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Telegraph: don’t raise minimum wage, employers can’t afford it!
Also Telegraph: how can this couple possibly raise a family on a mere. £225,000 a year? https://t.co/ePc8DiBh8H pic.twitter.com/63h23t5JP6
— Daniel (@Daniel_W12) January 12, 2026
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Devil is always in the details with these. https://t.co/lC916iK1MJ pic.twitter.com/y6UEIu5Acx
— James (@JAlexMurphy) January 11, 2026
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They aren’t ‘too broke to have children’, they’ve just decided they like their lifestyle too much to do so. Plenty of people on far less manage to raise families.
— Goody Soup Dragon/Dr Heinz Kiosk/Dinosaur (@Jessie_XL) January 10, 2026
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A combined income of £225k and they are saying they can’t afford to have kids?
Give me a BREAK. https://t.co/qTmZPe02sf
— Steph (@StephanieYeboah) January 11, 2026
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Quite hard to have empathy for people who earn about 9x my salary complaining about money tbf https://t.co/ol5ckYg3m9
— R (@rjb_1998) January 11, 2026
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Everyone is too broke to have children.
You need to prioritize.
— Domain Pro (@domainpro) January 10, 2026
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What a load of fucking bollocks https://t.co/18vL2pu8UK
— Pooball (@pooball) January 12, 2026
Just in the interest of balance and all that, there was also this.
They’re sadly getting a lot of hate for this which is unfair. Yes, they’re on an above average income but it’s still not great money. The issue is that Brits don’t understand just how poor we are – or how dysfunctional our tax system is. https://t.co/tbg2vUqWEO
— Ben Ramanauskas (@BenRamanauskas) January 10, 2026
But they were surely wrong. Weren’t they?
Source Telegraph