Comments by "David Getling" (@DavidGetling) on "National Insurance hike: 'I think it’s the wrong tax at the wrong time.' | Andrew Bridgen MP" video.

When NI was introduced it was a tiny tax used to provide for people's retirement pension, hence the name. Nobody really minded paying it. But over the decades, under both parties, it has mutated like a malignant cancer, so that now sucks the lifeblood out of wages and company profits, and bears no resemblance to how it started out, being now mainly used to fund anything but pensions. As such our tax system should be simplified by absorbing NI into income tax and corporation tax. A simpler tax system would be cheaper for both companies and government to administer, and people would find it much easier to understand. Ah, but there's the rub, it's harder to cheat people when they are better able to understand something.
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In that case he will never make it to them.
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