Budget 2024

[mosssideblue]

If National Insurance contributions are scrapped then how will the NHS / Retirement Pensions be funded?

NHS will not exist, so you will need PMI. State pensions scrapped, so you need to earn a private one.

 

[Manc baggie]

Nice but dim Bim?

 

[blueinsa]

I will have had a 4% cut in NI this year and it’s left me £7.24 worse off according to calculators lol

 

[blueinsa]

If National Insurance contributions are scrapped then how will the NHS / Retirement Pensions be funded?

It’s probably won’t be.

Private medical insurance and private pensions will be the future.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

And they wonder why politicians arent trusted.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Reeve going on about tax burden on the BBC but refusing to consider the fiscal drag as a way out.

Well done Naga for asking her the question I was 'shouting' at the telly.

 

[paulchapo]

Things move fast in the world of Twitter know-nowts.

At lunchtime the Chancellor announces £3.4bn of funding for the NHS digitisation programme, and by dinner it’s turned into a £35bn contract, all signed over to Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law.

Anyone would think they’re just making this shit up.

Are they or aren't they?

 

[Blue Maverick]

If National Insurance contributions are scrapped then how will the NHS / Retirement Pensions be funded?

Everything would have to be private, no chance it happens unless you say if you turn 18 on a certain date you have to fund yourself everyone else will be entitled to it until they die, but then that has to be funded! I think it would be up there with poll tax riots if they tried it, I know I’ll be out throwing my zimmer frame at them.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Everything would have to be private, no chance it happens unless you say if you turn 18 on a certain date you have to fund yourself everyone else will be entitled to it until they die, but then that has to be funded! I think it would be up there with poll tax riots if they tried it, I know I’ll be out throwing my zimmer frame at them.

As you say, very difficult to do, and there would be a lot of trust needed in the programmers behind it.

It would be such a huge change that it's difficult to see how it could be done without ruining large numbers of people caught in a gap.

As such, it seems to me to be a meaningless comment to grab headlines and to justify the NI cut.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

It’s probably won’t be.

Private medical insurance and private pensions will be the future.

Private pensions are the now. I don't know anyone who thinks they can live off £204 a week.