In hard
times when money is tight we really need to be mean to the poor while cutting
taxes for the rich. And we definitely need to make sure that the poor who are
getting the least are the ones who get no more. I really do struggle to
understand why pensions should be protected. If a pensioner is disabled, there
are disability payments. Where there is greater need, we already have a
mechanism to provide it. So why should pensioners who are perfectly able to
work and often have wealth get more money than the poor who can’t even find a
job?
Pensioners might have paid NI all their lives, but they didn’t pay
enough. The average age of death was 50 for men when pensions were introduced,
giving many people no pension at all, as the pension age was 70. People also
tended to be less healthy. We now have people living for almost 30 more years
whilst perfectly able to work but getting money from younger people from 65…
because the oldies voted to get money from young people. This doesn’t make it
fair or right. It’s merely far-right.
The direct savings to government of not paying poor people enough
money have been announced as £3bn per year. I suspect
that might be an exaggeration, but someone else can do a detailed analysis.
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