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Old 07-09-2021, 10:13   #36
jfman
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Re: This NI increase for Social/Health Care

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Originally Posted by Maggy View Post
I paid in for my mother and my other elderly relatives. It's called paying forwards and eventually your offspring will be paying forward if we don't go daft and return to the system that was available before the advent of the NHS ect.Not sure I care to return to the days of the poorhouse or people dying in pain because they had no money to pay for healthcare.
So by any other measure it’s a pyramid scheme, with each generation hoping to squeeze the one after it by more than they paid out themselves.
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