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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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Difference being that if you are in an accident, the NHS wouldn't check to see if you had Private Health before sending an ambulance and giving you emergency treatment (which Private Health wouldn't cover anyway).
Why would we penalise those who had the foresight/ability to save to make retirement more comfortable - on those lines, why not introduce compulsory letting (free of charge) of rooms if you have a house with more bedrooms than you need for your family, as you obviously don't need those rooms?