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Thread ID: 107690 2010-02-26 03:38:00 screw the pensioners tut (12033) PC World Chat
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861654 2010-02-26 17:56:00 I would rather be young and broke than old and rich.
Intend working until I am too feeble then do something like bungee jump without a bungee.

Aaah Prefect... perhaps you should wait till you get to be old, before you make comments like that.

Ken
kenj (9738)
861655 2010-02-26 18:21:00 "Old" is relative, it is a vague affliction for others to have. Currently, 90 years is getting a bit old, not too long ago 70 was antediluvian (but that was just phase I grew out of).
Feeble is also a variable btw.
R2x1 (4628)
861656 2010-02-26 19:29:00 If you are that feeble how will you get the energy to jump? Sweep (90)
861657 2010-02-26 19:36:00 I am not a maths wizard so this might be wrong but if my pension is $300/week of which I spend every cent of that, then with GST at 12.5% I donate to the Government $37.50

I have purchased good to the value of $262.50

If my pension is increased by 2% I now get $306.

When GST goes up to 15% then I donate to the government $45.90

I have purchased goods to the value of $260.10.

A net loss of $2.40 in my spending power.

And of course the costs of all goods will rise

Screw the pensioners

I thought Key said you got the 2% + some other increase?...
SolMiester (139)
861658 2010-02-26 19:39:00 He said 2% plus some undefined tax cut.

He has also not mentioned other low income people at all.

I qualify as low income. Terrific my rates are already going to more than double, then there will be another 2.5% on top of them as well. Along with everything else.......
pctek (84)
861659 2010-02-26 19:55:00 If it is any consolation pctek, I have it on good authority that no MP will be disadvantaged by the tax changes. R2x1 (4628)
861660 2010-02-26 20:07:00 Don't forget electricity price rises coming soon. zqwerty (97)
861661 2010-02-26 20:10:00 If you are that feeble how will you get the energy to jump?
Blardy good point Sweep.
prefect (6291)
861662 2010-02-26 20:20:00 Don't forget electricity price rises coming soon .
Shouldn't that be " . . . electricity price rises continue unabated . "? ;)
R2x1 (4628)
861663 2010-02-26 22:21:00 The concept of age moves as you grow older. Old is always anyone more than 10 years older than your current age.

I have no time for the politics of envy. Most of the people I have met that are significantly richer than I have either worked a lot harder than I wish to or have some special talent that I do not. Good luck to them.

I also have no time for thieves.
CliveM (6007)
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