Indeed, that is the problem with funding it by actual insurance, instead of a tax like we have. NI is not health insurance, if it were the NHS would be ringfenced only to those who pay for it. Its a … (View Post)

No you're wrong. Plenty of working age people pay their rent entirely by themselves without support. (View Post)

She's worse than Liz Truss. Liz Truss was incompetent but also unfortunate/foolish to coincide her rather trivial reforms with the Bank announcing QT, and her own announcement of the blank chequ… (View Post)

Nope, it was set up as a tax and called insurance. It was always a tax, the name is irrelevant. Using your logic we could merge NI and Income Tax as I advocate, keep the criterion for eligibility of … (View Post)

If you don't get child benefit, its because you don't need to pay for children, and children cost far more than child benefit. Pensioners who are paying for children are entitled to child b… (View Post)