peteofrawdon

Raconteur, nihilist, Marlon Dingle lookilike.

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R.I.P. Jimmy Cricket.

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@rinireg @JonathanLigmas Scary for the people who live there, who are not pictured!

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@GracenFavour @iAmJoshHunt We've never had universal social care paid entirely from taxes. If people want that now, then everyone should contribute.

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@ColeFusionHQ Great thread, thank you. An immediate hitlist of things the Treasury should update.

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@ariaclast Another small example of this - mileage allowance. I know it's recently been raised, but it's still too low and for years was trailing higher fuel prices. And then we wonder why we can't recruit mobile carers...

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@ARandomKaren @TypeForVictory 😂 it's an irrelevant non-sequitur. Tax, including NI, is a PAYG system. The imperative to 'socialise' the costs of care just as the richest generation start to need it, having resisted doing so when they'd pay more tax, is the point of the original post. And no need to be rude.

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@ARandomKaren @TypeForVictory What's that got to do with anything?

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@Telegraph ...such as selling their house to pay for care, taking out private insurance etc. As soon as you then try change those rules, it feels immensely unfair to those people, who complied because they expected those rules to continue indefinitely.

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@Telegraph A problem with trying to sort out a broken system to make it better and fairer is that a lot of people will see that as unfair because they accommodated the broken system. The broken system were the rules and they worked within them...

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@SimonLester2468 @_Unknown_D_ 😂

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@_Unknown_D_ It kind of gets worse the more you think about it. Currently a high proportion of social care costs are paid from council tax, which the retired pay. If this leads to an entirely new funding stream, and council tax falls as a result...

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@SimonLester2468 @_Unknown_D_ As a cohort, they haven't in either absolute or relative terms, grandad. And I don't think you know what 'berate' means.

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@SimonLester2468 @_Unknown_D_ And it's expecting struggling working people to pay extra tax, so only fair.

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@SimonLester2468 @_Unknown_D_ And so they should - they will be the ones who immediately benefit from the proposal without having paid the extra tax themselves.

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@ARandomKaren @TypeForVictory North Sea Oil?

There were more taxpayers (demographic bulge), paying lower rates of tax, at a time when the essentials of life were relatively cheaper.

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@Tony_Diver So no contribution from those people who will immediately benefit from this service?

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@lukerobertblack This is what happens now with jobs. If you're from the north and work in many industries, you have to move to London. Then people sneer at the regions because they are more state dependant - older and less economically active - well, their young high earners had to relocate!

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@BenKentish Speaking purely financially, I guess you've not had to commission a plumber or a plasterer recently. Many 'working class' careers comfortably out-earn supposed 'middle class' ones.

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@ian4downton The statutory responsibilities on councils mean they have very little wiggle room on spending. Demographics (age mainly) means uneven distribution of social care costs which fall on councils.