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Granny tax hits 5 million pensioners
We're all in this together. I bet when those words were firsted uttered by smiley Dave no one thought he was going to rob the poor pensioners to give a tax cut to the highest paid earners.
http://www.telegraph....llion-pensioners.html
Have they just lost 5 million votes?, or do pensioners accept that paying off the deficit will be better In the long run and will continue to vote for them?
http://www.telegraph....llion-pensioners.html
Have they just lost 5 million votes?, or do pensioners accept that paying off the deficit will be better In the long run and will continue to vote for them?
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We'll have to console ourselves with the thought that it's not all bad. A pensioner who has private extra earnings of £1 million a year is now £42,500 a year better off!
11:40 Thu 22nd Mar 2012
I'm waiting for the penny to drop with my mum, she will retire at the end of the year and has worked her money out, now she'll have to recalculate and I'm going to have to listen to a months worth of earache. When it comes to voting people forget about things that annoyed them with the government abd I think they just carry on voting for whoever they always have done, I still as a friend who votes for a certain party because that's who her parents voted for, she has no idea of what they stand for, she's 45 years old? People get the government they deserve!
Has anyone else noticed how the journalists and presenters on TV are portraying us baby boomers as idlers and living off our pensions and heatiang allowance, that we have savings and own our own houses and how easy it has been?
It makes my blood boil!
Firstly in order to buy out first house, it took 3 months (on £22 a week) to save for the deposit - no parents to help us like we have helped our children with a deposit. We worked overtime, didn't go out or have a holiday so we could save. When we bought the house the previous owner left some old furniture in it and we were thrilled that we didn't have to sit on deckchairs with no carpet for the first six months.
WE paid £5 for an old car until my husband got a company car.
We hardly went out - never mind spending money binge drinking - think of the money these young people would save if the stayed in!
We were careful and saved hard to help our children and now many of us do voluntary work - we do not sit at home doing nothing!!
I must exclude the presenter of Lorraine this morning who castigated the female journalist about the cut because her Mum would be affected and as she said "£83 or £343 is a lot of money when you only earn £10,500 a year.
It makes my blood boil!
Firstly in order to buy out first house, it took 3 months (on £22 a week) to save for the deposit - no parents to help us like we have helped our children with a deposit. We worked overtime, didn't go out or have a holiday so we could save. When we bought the house the previous owner left some old furniture in it and we were thrilled that we didn't have to sit on deckchairs with no carpet for the first six months.
WE paid £5 for an old car until my husband got a company car.
We hardly went out - never mind spending money binge drinking - think of the money these young people would save if the stayed in!
We were careful and saved hard to help our children and now many of us do voluntary work - we do not sit at home doing nothing!!
I must exclude the presenter of Lorraine this morning who castigated the female journalist about the cut because her Mum would be affected and as she said "£83 or £343 is a lot of money when you only earn £10,500 a year.
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You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Buildersmate, you need to get yourself a decent dictionary. Here's how the OED defines rob...
"To deprive a person of something by unlawful force or the exercise of superior power."
Even if you're unhappy with 'unlawful force', I don't see how you can quibble in present circumstances either with 'deprive' or 'superior power'.
"To deprive a person of something by unlawful force or the exercise of superior power."
Even if you're unhappy with 'unlawful force', I don't see how you can quibble in present circumstances either with 'deprive' or 'superior power'.
“Since when has a failure to increase an allowance in line with inflation (or any other indexed increase) correlated to 'what is due'?”
It’s not that straightforward, BM. See my first answer in this question:
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1117568.html
Anyone reaching 65 after April next year will certainly be robbed (or perhaps “deprived of” may be less dramatic) of the increased age-related tax-free allowance.
It’s not that straightforward, BM. See my first answer in this question:
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1117568.html
Anyone reaching 65 after April next year will certainly be robbed (or perhaps “deprived of” may be less dramatic) of the increased age-related tax-free allowance.
Carole Gif, I am with you on this. And what is more, more of us had to live with our parents in those days, even when we married. Single people didn't have a hope in hell of buying a home and it didn't even cross their minds.
As you say, we got no help with finance from our parents, we lived with donated furniture, we scrimped and saved and we didn't moan.
And now we are deemed to be a burden on society.
(regardless of Gromit's sarcasm ;o) )
However, we manage on what we have - I doubt whether some younger people could.
As you say, we got no help with finance from our parents, we lived with donated furniture, we scrimped and saved and we didn't moan.
And now we are deemed to be a burden on society.
(regardless of Gromit's sarcasm ;o) )
However, we manage on what we have - I doubt whether some younger people could.
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