The original thread seems to have closed not sure why .. new to this so not quite sure what I’m doing yet but just wanted to post re these increases
Problem is the money has to be found from somewhere. National insurance rises share the cost between employers and employees which seems fair and you don’t start paying NI till your income is above £184 per week. I would say generally NHS workers are pretty well paid generally compared with average wages and although increases have been frozen I still think a lot of people would be happy with NHS pay rates.
However for me I think raising more from inheritance taxes makes sense if we are looking at ways to improve social services for the living .. possibly 20% on all estates above £50,000?
Also things like working tax credits have got out of hand compared with when they were first introduced and now they cost the country an absolute fortune and it seems very strange that we have labour shortages and record vacancies whilst paying people just to work part time.