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Shame he didn't realise that before helping get them elected.
Well, a lack of a Verified Account icon for a start?
Yours, the Dali Lama.
That is the dark lord of Brexit btw, he does post up a fair amount of whiny cockbag shite on Twitter but the replies to his posts are very amusing to read.
What’s brought this on?
Money
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What is this 'young subsidising the old' shit that being spouted at the moment. People really can't see beyond their immediate needs can they - in the broader view the young and the old are the same people - what kind of idiot would fail to notice that. With a few rare exceptions you get to do a bit of both in a lifetime. The reality is that that most of us don't pay any meaningful amount of tax for at least the first 15 - 25 years of our lives. At what point in your life do you think you've made sufficient contribution through tax to cover the cost to the nation of you having been young? The education budget alone (which we make absolutely no tax contribution to while we are being young) is five times the cost social care - many of the people in receipt of social care int their twilight years are still tax payers - as their pension income that gets swallowed whole and more by care costs - is subject to tax.
– in the broader view the young and the old are the same people – what kind of idiot would fail to notice that.
Me. Ignoring who typed it I agree with:
Tell your friends: the Tories are making the young - who can't get a house & working for average/below average income, already screwed by a decade of hapless Tory government - to work harder to subsidise older richer people. They promised to do the opposite
The statement stands up to economic analysis. The education system saddles young people who take advandtage of it with a mountain of debt.
The change being proposed is inequitable and in many ways unfair BUT we need to be very careful we don't get sucked into a superficial argument about old v young. That's just classic Tory divide and conquer headline trolling, cat dropping, distraction technique, which led to Brexit, and Covid chaos and all the other shit we are dealing with.
It should be about ability to contribute, end of.
While Dom might be making a name for himself sniping from the sidelines, I can't help thinking he's still employed as a Tory spam bot.
Cummings is hilarious, he really is the archetypal spurned lover sniping from the sidelines
What's not funny is how the political direction if the country is dominated by the caprices of these desperately inadequate men
The education budget alone (which we make absolutely no tax contribution to while we are being young) is five times the cost social care
What we should really do to **** the EU off is to let them pay to educate their children then poach their highly skilled workforce.
LET THE LION ROAR.
What is this ‘young subsidising the old’ shit that being spouted at the moment.
Well 'young' (or at least working) people have always subsidised the old to some degree haven't they? It's just that now we have an ageing population who have hoarded all the wealth, while repeatedly voting for a system that keeps it that way.
The demographics of the boomer generation is such that they (as a general trend not everyone obviously) have had an almost unparalleled in history position of wealth, security and political power.
I don't blame them all for that but they could at least be aware of it.
Well ‘young’ (or at least working) people have always subsidised the old to some degree haven’t they
Yep
The myth that your taxes pay for your care in old age is just that.
The tax payments you paid would've been inflated away to nothing, the tax whilst working pays for the care of the generation above you who are in social /medical care at the time.
And the education vs social care thing makes no sense, it's only so low because it's grossly underfunded, not to mention that healthcare costs are the expensive bit and that's loaded toward OAPs
And fwiw Cummings nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, the Tories will be let off, because Johnson is a lad 🙄