Nice old man, lovely sentiment.
Afraid though we need to take a reality check.
The maths simply don't add up.
Let's take a fairly simple example. Me (can't get much more simple than that!!)
I lived for the first 18 years of my life as a burden on the tax payer.
I expect to be working till I'm at least 60,
I'm then hoping for 20 years or so of retirement.
So that's 42 years paying in and 38 years taking out. Not far off a 50/50 split biased towards paying.
Now take my step daughter
She's spent 24 years at the cost of the tax payer she still wants to retire at 60 and by then she can reasonably expect to have a good quality of retirement till she's 90.
That's 54 years taking out and only 36 putting in. Not a 50/50 split and more biased towards taking out.
So more people taking out than putting in and more reliance on the NHS as we age.
So how are we paying for it.
And there's the crux of this and indeed the last election. Everyone agrees we need to make cuts but no one will tell us accurately where. So we don't have a clue what we are voting for and we are all working on assumptions.
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