Still a tax. Doesn't matter what you do with it. Indeed most early taxes in England originated in the need to pay for specific things - mostly wars. Pitt introduced Income Tax to help cover the costs… (View Post)

You really should read the text of your own sources. " Each entry is based on that country's definition of rape, which varies widely throughout the world. It does not specify whether recorded me… (View Post)

This is not news. (View Post)

It was and is a tax. All be it originally a hypothecated one. But the idea that we are 'owed' a state pension beause we have paid for it was and is a myth (View Post)

For sure. But that doesn't mean we can't work to educate people. And we certainly shouldn't be seeing supposedly politically literate people on PB still believing the myth of 'paying into my State pe… (View Post)