Chippy_boy
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Damocles said:squirtyflower said:The most sensible tax post I've ever read on BM
I'm not sure if any post suggesting sacking 20,000 people can ever really reach the heights of sensible to be honest.
I was being flippant about the sackings. "Free and able to contribute to society in more valuable ways" might have been better.
But the key point is there's really no need for a complicated tax system. In fact quite the opposite: having one is inefficient and actually counterproductive. If you want maximum yield from your tax system, you want the most straightforward rules, resulting in minimal chances of error or misunderstanding, minimal chance of "cheating" and lowest audit costs.
Damocles said:How do we pay for pensions with no NI?
Do you think that maybe sacking 20,000 people might have other economic effects?
Through the tax system. Why should someone on £15,000 a year and a zero hours contract be paying NI? It's ridiculous. Gordon Brown's legacy: take money of the poor so you can give it back to them again in credits and benefits. It's utterly idiotic.
And regards the 20,000 "sackings" - it would have excellent economic effects. It's cheaper to pay 20,000 civil servants to sit at home on unemployment benefit that pay them £30,000 each per year for a job that doesn't need doing. But they wouldn't all be unemployed, many would get jobs in the private sector. So overall we'd be miles better off.
squirtyflower said:I'm all for simplification so everyone knows where they stand and there are no loop holes to avoid paying tax
Precisely!