So, pensioners will no longer enjoy a bigger tax allowance than the rest of the population! And most are complaining that it is unfair. Since when was life fair? Come to think about it since when were government decisions fair?
I was born at the tail end of WW2, OK, we had rationing but we also had the new National Health Service. Today's pensioners probably enjoyed the heyday of the NHS, it really was free at the point of need and Matron kept things running smoothly.
We also had free orange juice, cod liver oil and school milk. We grew up to be the healthiest generation for decades before or since.
Most of us had mothers who stayed at home and ran the house as it wasn't essential to have two wages to survive.
When we left school we could go to college or university with not only full grants for tuition but a maintenance grant as well.
When it came to getting a job we had a vast choice and many jobs came with a final salary pension scheme.
Today's pensioners who pay tax are not poor, those who only get State pensions are poor and they don't pay tax!
Most tax paying pensioners own their own homes, mortgages paid off years ago. We could get mortgages too, our home when we married in 1964 cost £3,150!
When we had children we all got a lump sum grant which paid for pram, cot and high chair too.
Compare the above with young men and women today....
1957: Britons 'have never had it so good'
The British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, has made an optimistic speech telling fellow Conservatives that "most of our people have never had it so good". We did have it good, (we had the swinging 60's as well).
Stop whingeing fellow OAP's, we've had our cake; and we've already eaten it!
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