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Hands off the tax revenue of unborn children.

abaxas
abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Please stop trying to take money from those who haven't even been born yet.
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Put the bottle down.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Put the bottle down.

    I dont really drink!
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    What is this thread about please?
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3332242
  • nw_man
    nw_man Posts: 739 Forumite
    abaxas wrote: »
    Please stop trying to take money from those who haven't even been born yet.

    Seems like a victimless crime to me :rotfl:
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    abaxas wrote: »
    Please stop trying to take money from those who haven't even been born yet.
    Bit late to worry about that. The entire National Debt is secured against the tax revenues of unborn children.

    And then there are all the other unfunded liabilities that are off the balance sheet. This of course includes the state retirement pension, which unlike most public sector works pensions is completely unfunded and pay-as-you-go. It's already gone the CPI route, with nobody taking much notice. And even now there are Treasury mandarins working out how to welsh on their obligations so you won't get one at all if they can help it.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Bit late to worry about that. The entire National Debt is secured against the tax revenues of unborn children.

    And then there are all the other unfunded liabilities that are off the balance sheet. This of course includes the state retirement pension, which unlike most public sector works pensions is completely unfunded and pay-as-you-go. It's already gone the CPI route, with nobody taking much notice. And even now there are Treasury mandarins working out how to welsh on their obligations so you won't get one at all if they can help it.

    I agree,

    The question how do we move from a parasitic to a symbiotic system?
  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    Good job the government have been encouraging the provision of housing, schools, hospitals etc for these children when they arrive in this world.

    And let's face it, what our planet needs now is a growing population - the sooner we burn all of that environmentally damaging oil and gas, the better.
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  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    DervProf wrote: »
    Good job the government have been encouraging the provision of housing, schools, hospitals etc for these children when they arrive in this world.

    And let's face it, what our planet needs now is a growing population - the sooner we burn all of that environmentally damaging oil and gas, the better.

    So if we dont breed, who is going to do the work? Who is going to pay for the old?

    Do we really want to go back in time?
  • PasturesNew
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    abaxas wrote: »
    So if we dont breed, who is going to do the work? Who is going to pay for the old?

    Do we really want to go back in time?
    As there aren't enough jobs to go round, "who is going to do the work" is irrelevant. It's more "how hard do the few workers have to work to pay for those not working".
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