Simply pointing out a truth - it undermines all these sorts of polls. Ask people if they would be willing (note I don't try to influence it by saying 'happy') to pay more tax themselve… (View Post)

Worth asking why so many people put money into property though. I don't know about you obviously but I do know lots of people who decided to invest in property instead of pensions when successiv… (View Post)

Building up seems eminently sensible but as you say is not something that is done often enough in British towns and cities. (View Post)

Yep. I think that is reasonable, indeed necessary. Although in effect at that point it is probably simpler just to merge the two into proper 'income' tax. (View Post)

Actually what we have told them officially (as opposed to politicians telling people what they want to hear) is that the NI contributions they make are to pay for today's pensions and that the w… (View Post)