Do you own a car, and is it insured? National insurance was introduced to cover sickness and periods of unemployment. It has nothing to do with pensions.
Taxes aren’t going down any time soon. The government is running a significant deficit, many of the most wealthy are leaving the country, and every time Labour negotiate they give away more taxpayer money (the unions. Mauritius, NATO, the EU, the French to enforce our borders….). The demographic and political realities are that there is a sizeable vocal and voting boomer cohort that all parties want to court, and an ever smaller proportion of the public working and being taxed to pay for everything.
I have too much in savings to make any meaningful benefits claim. Sounds like the policy may have been missold.
If you've never paid towards anyway it's win win. Also a flawed argument as paying taxes towards emergency services to be used by everyone in a emergency is different to paying taxes towards a state pension for myself.
I think I’ve worked hard and made sensible choices to get where I have from a low income single parent family, an absent father, and losing our house to bankruptcy when I was six.
I’m glad I met my wife before the proliferation of dating apps, that I have two healthy and happy kids, and that I used my natural talents and education to make a good life for all of us. I don’t feel particularly fortunate in an excessive wealth or luck sense - where we live I see many people buying a lot more ostentatious displays of their wealth, having worked a lot less hard, and in many cases having benefitted from parental gifts, hands up, and sizeable inheritances. It’s the nature of the human condition to always be a bit dissatisfied I think. Perhaps that’s just me speaking as a Barnsley fan.
It was announced that most wealthy are leaving the country. However, the facts disputed that. https://taxjustice.net/press/millionaire-exodus-did-not-occur-study-reveals/