Pensioners’ fears over income tax burden
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by Codydoc4
7 comments
It’s hardly extortion. They’re still paying very little and vast majority are net benefit receivers. if anything, they should pay more of their benefits back e.g pay NI as well.
I’m not great at understanding tax so happy to be corrected if wrong here.
Being pushed into a tax bracket doesn’t mean you’re getting less than you were before surely? It just means your rise isn’t giving you as much as it would have if the brackets weren’t frozen. Nobody should have less money than they had before because of this?
Pensioners have consistently voted for the Tories, and their lies. The birds have come home to roost
Edit: Down vote me all you want, but in 2019 those over 65 voted overwhelmingly for the Tories (~60%).
https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-findings/age-and-voting-behaviour-at-the-2019-general-election/
*”It feels like a double-tax,” the 90-year-old said. “We paid tax when we worked, we didn’t get big salaries, and now we’re paying on our little bit of pension which is not a lot. And with the cost of living you can’t keep paying extra all the time. The tax threshold should increase.”*
At what age would a now 90 year old woman have been eligible for the state pension? I reckon she’s had a pretty good ride to be complaining about being “double taxed”
Oh look. The consequences of their actions.
Maybe now they’re being personally affected by this godawful government they might stop voting for it.
It’s hard to feel sorry for pensioners but if they can sway the government to raise thresholds early everyone will benefit.
They are the biggest voting block after all.
Just a reminder that if only the exact same people who voted in the Brexit referendum were allowed to vote a year later, the remain would have a clear majority.
I’m a pensioner, but people who own their house and are just receiving money, should not be allowed to complain for the government policies they bloody voted for decades. FAFO mathafacas