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Originally Posted by Osem
It's totally consistent isn't it? HMG have long been dealing with the effects of a growing and ageing population by encouraging an influx of immigrants many of whom will stay here, have children and then grow old themselves...   |
Well if they pay taxes than this is fine. A lot of people are reaching pension age and there isn't the population to sustain it. As the baby boomer generation reaches retirement age we need more people to pay into the system so that the rest of us can afford their pensions, to redress the population balance.
For all the talk about foreign aid or 'skivers' it's the care and pensions for the elderly that really costs. Got to pay for it somehow...