Raggamuffin wrote:Stooo wrote:Raggamuffin wrote:Stooo wrote:measurer wrote:National Insurance needs to go up and heads at the top need to roll. Monklands is one hospital I wouldn't want to go to, but it is one I can use. True, we dod have a flu epidemic, ( still getting over it 4 weeks later), but nurses' moral is rock bottom, as for the doctors in places like A&E, God help them, for it won't be this government.
The Scots will put up more of a fight though, so Nicola will rely on it to get them through.
The whole thing disgusts me and ALL governments have ruined it, though by far the Tories. It's a cash cow to them, just un-usable tax they can't have.....but they do in other ways. Certainly rising it would definitely help, but I feel it is too corrupted now, Britain needs to make a stance.
The basic rate of tax needs to go up, enough of the bullshit hidden tax that is national insurance, it all goes into the same pot.
Yes, but NI insurance is different when it comes to the State pension and/or benefits.
That's down to how it's allocated after collection. NI is bullshit, lump it in with the general tax and realistically take the poorer out of taxation.
They're already out of it. People who earn between £113 and £157 per weeks don't pay any NI but they're credited with it. They only pay if they earn more than £157 per week. The personal allowance for tax is £11,000 a year.
Paying tax is a fact of life, and I think it would be better for more people to pay it, but at a smaller percentage.
It's red tape bullshit, cut it out.