Chuka Ummana just now o.n

[minestrone]

A doctor said to me last night "I do not care if people die, I am not working till I am 71".

[IR35 Avoider]

Oh you were almost convincing up until that point. do you need someone to explain how returning some money that originally came from the public purse is not actually contributing? really?

Suppose you contract for the NHS alongside a permie. According to you, the taxes the permie pays count for absolutely nothing, because the flow of money is circular, gov -> worker -> gov, but inserting a company between you and the NHS, so the flow is gov -> PSC -> worker -> gov means that all the tax you pay should count in full?

If the label attached to the worker's proximate source of income is really of economic signficance, maybe the government should set up a company that takes over the employment of all public sector workers, then by definition the country would have no public sector salaries to support, and the revenues from the private sector salaries would (very approximately) double and we would be hugely better off as a country? Even though nothing would have changed with regard to the actual economic output we all produce, what we get paid, and how much tax we each pay?