well seeing you mention families... Pwd belong to them you know!
I wonder how pwd and their families feel about paying tax ,, (especially on interest from the money from house sales), to pay for free nursery care for parents who earn under £100,000! Costing the govt £8 billion!!
Society needs to be fairer
Pwd pay for care until their savings are around £14,500 . And why shouldn't families inherit? It's not govt money and older people have paid in to the system, pay tax and even the poorest pensioners will be soon be paying tax on the state pension to help families on income up to 100,000k. Maybe pwd and families are not happy funding these families so they can afford big cars and expensive mobile phones!
Bash the old !!!
Oh .. we are an average working family and I don't think it fair we pay more for a bed because we saved instead of foreign holidays and big expensive cars.
Systems need to be fair to everyone in society, not just the young
I don’t live in the UK but lived there for several years so I won’t profess to know all the ins and outs of current economic policy and fiscal management but there are still truths that remain.
I have worked all my life for what I have. Because I have some money put away, we do not receive a full pension so use our savings to live. But I consider that to be OK as I don’t begrudge people who have been struggling to receive a little extra.
I have no beef about people who have oodles of money paying their way, and believe that governments need to block loopholes allowing the wealthy to reduce the amount of tax they pay (or don’t pay).
In another few years, the aging population is going to explode and the percentage of people who are working and paying tax is going to reduce, meaning that there will simply not be enough money going into revenue to provide the services that will be needed, needed by not only PWD, but all of us. That includes not only care but all the things we use in our everyday lives and don’t even think about.
It is a simple reality that we all have to carry the cost of the services we use because the money cannot be conjured up out of thin air. We all understand that the gap between rich and poor is growing and hanging on to your own money instead of paying for the services you are using, expecting someone else to pay isn’t exactly fair either.