General Election 2019

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Eejit in reply to @Dammit

Taking money from a cohort who have very little to give to a group that has a lot?

Can you explain this? It’s a discrete set of payments over 5 years. Assuming it’s going to be paid out of general taxation why would it fall uniquely on the young any more than any other set of taxpayers?

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Howard in reply to @Eejit

why would it fall uniquely on the young any more than any other set of taxpayers?

Presumably because they are borrowing the money to fund it.

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ChasnotRobert in reply to @Howard

Generally, older people earn more and therefore pay more tax. I'm not clear how this thing of the "young" paying for this specific policy is going to work?

Also, what about all the NI contributions the women in question paid? Yeah, I get that NI isn't really "insurance", but even so...

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