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National insurance is not income tax. When you don't pay income tax you still get to use the services income tax funds. If you don't pay national insurance you won't have a state pension.. you won't get job seekers allowance, etc.
It's completely different... It's not dodging taxes because you don't get the services these are supposed to pay for. Now if the government is using the money to fund other things in their budget that's their problem. You can't blame the companies/people not paying NI.
But it would be more transparent to roll employers' NIC into employees' NIC and give everyone a corresponding pay increase.
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