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Old 17th June 2018 | 17:48
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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Originally Posted by Skipname
Last month in UK I paid 397£ and my employer payed 524£ for national insurance.
So what? - that's got nothing to do with your contribution to the NHS.

(History lesson: Once Upon A Time NI was supposed to be how you paid for the entire welfare state - of which I think the largest chunk was the old age pension? - but it has long since lost the hypothecation and been subsumed into general taxation. It's now just a component of income tax by another name.)
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