OT: Petition to double UK pensioner's tax free allowance

Er no. Thats what is supposed to *follow* communism,

First of all the state takes everybody's wealth, that's what communism is.

Somehow whenever they have done that, then never ever give it to the people

Potential consequences again.

I know someone who was renting has effectively inherited the parents house. Previously, and close to retirement with a small pension on top of the state pension, the state probably would have to provide housing benefit etc. Now as a house owner the eligibility for extra benefits no longer applies.

The vast majority of those inheriting are not the super rich! The super rich probably have already put in place other legal methods of transferring wealth.

Rob never looks beyond the surface.

Let's say at death whatever I have left over goes to the government. What do I do?

I mortgage my house to the hilt and buy assets in countries beyond the UK's jurisdiction and spend the rest now on presents for my family,. Expensive presents.

And when its all gone I sign on to social services to get as much from the system as I can.

Indeed. The super rich lost their properties in the 1920s.

Asset taxes always destroy assets

Old history because both the people concerned are now dead: My mum spent many years staying at home looking after us kids born at intervals over a 10-year period, so at retirement age she only had the state pension and she qualified for the pension supplement. Her sister (my aunt) worked for just a few years as a Post Office switchboard operator, and thus at retirement age it automatically gave her a small Post Office pension, just enough to tip her over the pension supplement threshold. So she just had state pension plus Post Office pension

Outcome: my mum with the pension supplement had a slightly higher pension income than my aunt did. It was good for the Treasury, less good for the person concerned.

So his father's business succeeded in making a tool. That'll go down in history.

I'll happily sign if I got the same pensions and tax code.

Otherwise the leaches and parasites who contribute nothing to the UK economy but get free prescriptions, free travel etc can go f**k themselves.

You don't hope or expect to reach pension age, then?

Incidentally, I *have* reached pension age, but I declined to sign that petition for some people to have bigger tax-free allowances than others simply based on the nature of their source of income (and not on some genuinely needs-based consideration).