They Just Can't Help It Can They ?
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Is the level of spending on everything from welfare and public services unsustainable? It seems everyone now expects the state to cough up whenever any kind of misfortune comes knocking their their door.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.yes people expect too much from the state pension. the triple lock is a ridiculous policy which was never anything more than a bribe to buy votes for the conservatives. a great many pensioners are very well off and claim the state pension because they feel entitled to it, and then look down their nose at others who claim benefits. the time has come to freeze the state pension at the least.
I am very grateful for the state which propped me up when I was a single mother. I have more than paid that back in tax, as has my son.
I think Covid and the policies around it -;with no school for children, working from home for adults, university students not able to go to lectures, 80% of salary paid (Thanks, Rishi Sunak), young people feel they're owed something for the upheaval they've had.
the UK is currently spending about £130 billion a year on state pensions which is more than 5% of GDP. these numbers will only increase as the proportion of pensioners increae and the proportion of working age adults goes down.
the entire universal credit budget is £88 billion. the entire budget for PIP is £21 billion. the entire budget for education is £88 billion.
meanwhile millions of pensioners are extremely wealthy and are in receipt of state pension anyway. millions of pensioner households are millionares. why should the state be giving such people more money?
Difficult to know what is affordable, or what the heck they manage to fritter our money on. I suspect spending on irrelevances lead folk to the conclusion that too much is wasted and so their demands should be fulfilled too. It certainly seems, for example, money needs to be spent to alleviate genuine needs rather than provide for wants & desires. Self reliance is worth cultivating, but genuine cases should not be neglected.
Since war drums seem to be being beaten lately, there should be a reduction in expectations. Previous generations have shown us the way.
the welfare system is there as a safety net in order to protect people who are unlucky from serious poverty. if you have reached the end of your working life as a very wealthy person then you should not be claiming the state pension. it is an enormous drain on the finances of the state... we currently spend more on the state pension than we do paying interest on the national debt. the current public spending deficit is almost equal to the amount of money we spend on state pensions. wealthy people should not be claiming money that they don't need.
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