Those within the UK will most likely know of the brouhaha over the state pension increase, the triple-lock and some quite nasty young hotheads, manipulated by those above, posting all sorts of things about boomers needing dispossessing.
There have been hundreds of comments and this is a small selection:
Thoughts?
Doesn't surprise me that they are coming for the pension. You have paid in and can't get it back now. They have already reneged on part of it. They extended the payment dates out by years. Those are the years you will be retired and were promised those payments. Of course those that pissed their money up the wall will get housed and benefits to compensate but those that prepared for the future will lose out tens of thousands of pounds.
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If you cane pigeon hole groups you can divide them, set one upon another. This relatively recent naming of generations serves that purpose. Once upon a time there were boomers, subsequent generations weren't named. Then they were defined and the games started.
ReplyDeleteI worked hard and often very unsocial hours to pay my mortgage through times when interest rates exceeded 17%. Some days all I ate were jam sarnies (mum made gallons of raspberry and gooseberry jam). To stay afloat I stopped paying into my endowment policy, converting it to paid up, it still covered my borrowing on maturity (eat your heart out Gordon Brown). That allowed me to continue paying into a small private pension fund. That pension is quite small but taxed heavily. Every time I spend money I am paying tax - direct and indirect. Excise duty on fuel, alcohol and tobacco is also subject to VAT. So who says I am leeching from the young and don't deserve that which I have grafted for?
In my lifetime, I've had several benefits taken away from me by government. Whether it was free school milk, taxing my pension pot, the IR35 rules that stopped me being self-employed, or the raising of pension age to 67. Successive governments have tried their best to radicalise me against them. Now just before I get to 67, they'll remove the triple lock, or worse. It's no wonder many people of my age are radicalised against the two main parties.
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