If your tax bill came with an itemised statement, it
would tell you, roughly that -
1. You work for a fifth of the year paying for
other people’s pensions and
2. Another fifth paying for other people’s health
care.
3. And another couple of months more or less paying
for all the miscellaneous benefits – job seekers, disability and all the rest
And you do this in a country, where a future in which other people ultimately pay for your pension and
healthcare, seems pretty unlikely.
(Extract from Hugo Rifkind)
Once you retire (having worked and contributed as above) – if your
tax bill came with an itemised statement it might tell you that-
1. Your state pension to
which you have contributed all your working life and
2. Any other benefits given to you as pensioners
such as winter fuel allowance
Are all quietly taken away from you - as
tax
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