Thing is, these numbers are just colossal. IIRC, you need to earn circa £50K a year to be a net financial contributor in UK. Below that and someone else is funding you on a macro level. I know we could spend months arguing about that figure but just accept it for a moment. If you earn £50K a year, you pay £12,350 a year in tax and NI. A year in Bob’s Cheshire care home is nearly 7 years of tax and NI contributions of a £50K salary. Let alone all the other public services which need to be paid for. I just can’t see how we can square the circle. Sure, go after tax dodgers but it’ll be a rounding error in the scale and size of the problem.