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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You mean, like people paying towards the NHS who rely on private health care? Like people whose tax goes towards education despite them having no children themselves?
We are all taxed to provide essential services to the population for the common good, and State pension contributions are no different. A lot of our taxes go towards various State benefits that many of us have never claimed, but you don't hear many people moaning about that principle. As long as it doesn't go to scroungers, of course.
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People who pay for private healthcare are fully aware they'll have to continue paying for the NHS via taxation when they do so. They're also not denied the same level of NHS care as anyone else either.
We need more people to contribute to a private pension. It's not going to help if we financially punish those who do so by removing their state pension to compensate for their own prudence in saving for their retirement.