Taxes into the future

[vetran]

As a start - Why are we constantly trying to get people to get healthy and live longer ? We have no possible way of paying for the huge numbers expected to need pensions and care in the future, the more who eat, smoke and drink themselves into a quick early coronary - the better !

Ah that explains Club 18-30. Maybe we need a Club scrounger? imagine

Holiday that rocks.
Essex girls, drugs & rock n roll. Father hundreds of housing benefit vouchers, get off yer face nightly. Have moan about your council house sing along etc.

[centurian]

Always been inevitable. The poor don't have any money to tax. Try to tax the rich any more and they just move elsewhere, leaving you with less money.

The only target left is the middle classes.

And all done under the mantra of "fairness"

So I have one simple question: when do the politicians intend to let the public know about the fate that awaits them?

Well that's a simple one - because those that tell the truth don't get elected. All the rhetoric from the public in general about wanting to be told the truth is total utter tulip. They want to be told what they want to hear.

[Gonzo]

As a start - Why are we constantly trying to get people to get healthy and live longer ? We have no possible way of paying for the huge numbers expected to need pensions and care in the future, the more who eat, smoke and drink themselves into a quick early coronary - the better !

Agreed.

Virtually all my relatives live the clean-living way that I don't. They all last until they are about 90 but the last ten years never looks worth it to me.

[HairyArsedBloke]

As a start - Why are we constantly trying to get people to get healthy and live longer ? We have no possible way of paying for the huge numbers expected to need pensions and care in the future, the more who eat, smoke and drink themselves into a quick early coronary - the better !

I've been say that for years. Making people cut down or stop drinking and smoking is a false economy. All those supposed gains from not having to treat health problems now have only been replaced with expenditure in pensions and health care later; at the same time revenue from excise duties and taxes on those products has been cut.

[shaunbhoy]

I am all for this Voluntary Euthenasia. I mean what better way of signing off than a long cruise to some far-off tropical island full of attentive dusky maidens, exotic drugs, and copious amounts of alcohol? That is the way to go. A massive heart attack brought on by sexual overexertion, charlie, and good Malt whisky!!
The wives could be hoiked over the side of the ship en route too having been told that you would be down the slipway immediately afterwards. Win-win I reckon and a great Plan B for some budding entrepeneur.

[lukemg]

As a start - Why are we constantly trying to get people to get healthy and live longer ? We have no possible way of paying for the huge numbers expected to need pensions and care in the future, the more who eat, smoke and drink themselves into a quick early coronary - the better !

[Mich the Tester]

Interesting article:

Middle class families face a triple whammy - Telegraph

Having read this, and it isn't just the UK, this is happening everywhere, as the middle class slides into inevitable "poverty" (well not so well off), won't this lead to "Social Justice" and high taxes in the future to correct the balance. You know, the rich getting richer the poor getting poorer, so if you've put some money aside it's your duty to hand it over.

The baby boomers go into retirement en masse in 2015. Might be now worth planning a change of nationality.

Yes; raise taxes on 'poor people' to make them pay back all the bloody benefits we've given them all these years.

[doodab]

I suspect it's more likely to lead to mass unrest and a resurgence in idealogical spoutings.

[BlasterBates]

Interesting article:

Middle class families face a triple whammy - Telegraph

Having read this, and it isn't just the UK, this is happening everywhere, as the middle class slides into inevitable "poverty" (well not so well off), won't this lead to "Social Justice" and high taxes in the future to correct the balance. You know, the rich getting richer the poor getting poorer, so if you've put some money aside it's your duty to hand it over.

The baby boomers go into retirement en masse in 2015. Might be now worth planning a change of nationality.