houldbeworkingmore
@MrsSkylerWhite It's a huge issue & no one wants to address it. It really worries me for when I'm old & what the world will look like for my dc.
Teresa May tried to address it. I’m not political at all, look at manifestos before deciding each time, but that didn’t go well for her.
I thought the proposals were reasonable 🤷♀️
We aren’t cash rich by any means but we do own an (now) expensive home. I’m human, clearly I’d like not to be forced into selling it to fund care. When the option though is that other people’s children fund my care, it’s clearly the right thing to do however uncomfortable that may be.
I think May’s proposal was that £100/125K was protected. I think that’s fair. An awful lot of people never manage to amass such a legacy despite working hard all of their lives.
We’ve paid our way all of our lives, why should it be different just because we’re old?
Between us, we’ve paid far more out in taxation than we’ve ever benefited from but we consider ourselves very fortunate to be in the position to do so and have no complaints about that.
Younger people have it tough enough already: our university education, for example, was free and we were given maintenance grants, not loans.
Our young people have risen to the challenges of these past 18 months with grace. To hammer them with further taxation now is just not right.