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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
did I say social security benefits?
I said pensions and IB. Not child benefit, housing benefit and the rest.
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No, but you did suggest that the surplus was an indication of the government's intentions, which it is not. There is a suplus every year, and it is growing. A chunk of the surplus is loaned to the Government and paid back with interest. This is not a Tory (or, indeed, a Coalition) invention.
You also referred to it as 'NI tax', which it most plainly isn't; it is operated and held in an entirely different way than general taxation.