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Old 17-01-2015, 17:59   #42
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Re: Osborne's 'Pensioner bonds' - bribing OAPs with everyone else's money

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Originally Posted by Kursk View Post
Well, I can't imagine all the oldies frittering their little "windfall" away on the high life. More likely it will be spent on their kids. Perhaps it is shrewd to pass some of the public purse to the older generation on the basis that they will use it in the manner to which they are accustomed ie with responsibility. And so the circle of economic life completes.
So why not, you know, just not give it to them but instead simply not have the state tax their kids or borrow more based on their future income to begin with?

This is what would normally be considered a 'conservative' way of thinking.
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