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Old 02-01-2019, 22:16   #527
jfman
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Re: Crisis in the NHS

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
As Governments tend to spend more money than they receive through taxation, contributors like your parents would have funded day-to-day spending.
While that is the case people who lived to be 100 got far more out of it for their contributions. Which is part of the reason it's becoming unsustainable in the long run, but as I said it's political suicide without wholesale reforms to redistribute wealth across the generations on a massive scale.
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