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Old 07-09-2021, 11:30   #49
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Re: This NI increase for Social/Health Care

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
You won’t find me complaining about taxation to fund quality public services. However I don’t see why the generation that lowered taxes to their lowest ever levels while enjoying the one off windfall of privatisation is exempt from putting their own hands in their own pockets along with the younger generations who will be lucky to see any pension at all at this rate.
Ah, boomers …

With the necessary caveat that blaming boomers is a sweeping generalisation because they didn’t all get rich buying shares in BT, British Gas and their local electricity board, this is one of those rare, epoch-defining points on which I suspect we are in broad agreement.

However, the fact that boomers understand you influence governments by actually voting in elections rather than posting hashtags on the internet means that governments tend to be more responsive to their priorities.
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