What would you like to see in the Budget next month?

westernpromise

I would put a tax on envy.

In this country it would raise billions.

kabayiri

I'd like to see them legalise drugs and prostitution as a revenue raiser in the budget.

But...being business friendly...allow companies to bid for this as 'franchise areas'. With a bit of luck it might be profitable like selling off the airwaves.

rtho782

westernpromise wrote: »

Why not just have everyone over 60 killed, and expropriate the evil ba5tards?

It would never happen. I don't want them to die I just don't want to have to subsidise their lifestyles, they are already net beneficiaries of the welfare state they have dismantled for the next generation.

But, your idea would solve the housing crisis, the social care crisis, the NHS crisis.... it sounds like it could work!

westernpromise

'Fess up. You do want them to die. You utterly loathe everyone over 60, and you honestly think the world would be a better place if every last one were killed and their stuff handed gratis to you. Don't you?

mrginge

I always bang on about training, so I would like to see even greater push on businesses being the driving force behind skills development.

Too much emphasis on the education system deciding based on what they want to teach rather than what we need as a country.

More incentivising in-work skills, apprenticeships, retraining grants ...etc.
Should be something we target at small and medium businesses too, not just the big corporates.

kabayiri

What's wrong with sending all the really old with no family off to live in relative luxury in India?

It's probably cheaper than paying for a load of care home workers here, and it's warmer with less rain.

antrobus

rtho782 wrote: »

It would never happen. I don't want them to die I just don't want to have to subsidise their lifestyles, they are already net beneficiaries of the welfare state they have dismantled for the next generation....

And so your solution is to dismantle even more of the welfare state for the next generation.:)

rtho782 wrote: »

..But, your idea would solve the housing crisis, the social care crisis, the NHS crisis.... it sounds like it could work!.

Why wait until 60? We can shoot you now, and replace you with some grateful Pole or Romanian.

lisyloo

just don't want to have to subsidise their lifestyles, they are already net beneficiaries of the welfare state

So if someone is living a long time with the usual chronic problems that come with old age, then what would you do with them?
The person I'm thinking of worked from 14-72 (and is much older than the boomer generation).

the welfare state they have dismantled for the next generation.

What have the elderly who've fought through wars to give you your freedom, done to dismantle the welfare state?

westernpromise

kabayiri wrote: »

What's wrong with sending all the really old with no family off to live in relative luxury in India?

It's probably cheaper than paying for a load of care home workers here, and it's warmer with less rain.

No, much cheaper to just kill them and take all their stuff. The ba5t4rds only stole it off the youth to begin with, innit.

kabayiri

westernpromise wrote: »

No, much cheaper to just kill them and take all their stuff. The ba5t4rds only stole it off the youth to begin with, innit.

You don't think these new old people will go on the mother of all spending sprees at 59 then?

At least with my plan it makes money for some of my entrepreneurial mates out in India.