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Ryan Barnett
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Trade union economist currently focusing on healthcare
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From election night experience, there were also quite a few in the 'Keir Starmer will save us crowd' at 2am.
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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RM in that recent blog: 'no one in mainstream economics has ever properly addressed, which is what money actually is.'

.... isn't true.
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Said with affection I hope, this is Bluesky!
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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These music puns must stop, although the Muse one set the bar
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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This continues to be nuts! Essentially putting up taxes on *anyone* putting in the suggested amount into their private pension via salary sacrifice in a convoluted way that will lead to lots of grumbling.
Charging NICs on salary-sacrificed pensions contributions 3.31 Salary-sacrificed pension contributions above an annual £2,000 threshold will no longer be exempt from NICs from April 2029. This means that salary-sacrificed pension contributions above £2,000 will be treated as ordinary employee pension contributions in the tax system and therefore be subject to both employer and employee NICs. Ordinary employer pension contributions will remain exempt from NICs. The policy results in an increase in NICs which is estimated to raise £4.7 billion in 2029-30 and £2.6 billion in 2030-31. 3.32 The costing assumes that in most cases employee pension contributions above £2,000 that were part of a salary-sacrifice scheme will become subject to employer and employee NICs, either because they move to a standard pension scheme or continue in a salary-sacrifice scheme under the new tax arrangements. The estimated yield from this measure is subject to uncertainties related to potential responses to the change by employers and employees: • Employers switching to ordinary contributions: Employers could look to replicate the tax benefits of salary-sacrifice by reducing future wage growth and instead providing employees with higher employer pension contributions. It would also be possible to formally replicate salary-sacrifice through an agreement to reduce wages and increase employer pensions contributions. However, this behaviour would be constrained by interactions with Operational Remuneration Agreement (OpRA) rules and employment
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Yeah, I have no idea why I can go toe-to-toe against Real Madrid with Cork city on pro, but on World Class I can barely score.
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM