Simon Wren-Lewis
This weeks post: Taxation as Insurance, Welfare and Entitlements https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/04/taxation-as-insurance-welfare-and.html
If we view taxes and benefits as mainly a social insurance system, then it makes little sense to separate employees national insurance contributions and income taxes.
Taxation as Insurance, Welfare and Entitlements

  A rather abstract discussion which leads to a very specific conclusion about the merger of income tax and employee national insurance cont...

Apr 9 at 8:30amWeb
Show threadspdrnl1d ago
@sjwrenlewis Universal basic income tries to level those concepts, no?
Show threadPaul Healey23h ago
@sjwrenlewis And taxation as insurance for ecocide, what does that give any in return? Driving a nonrenewable arms and tech race, has only ever given us more inequality, injustice, war and terror so a few get obscenely rich and powerful. Financing a programme of mass extinctions and possibly biosphere collapse is surely the most insane form of taxation there is. #Ecocide #EcocideTax #EcocideCrime #EcocideCriminals