Grey Squirrel
The photos of my pension documents didn’t attach themselves to the email I sent to the solicitor.It took another two day delay before they told me. The really annoying bit is that the question the documents answer have no bearing on the matter in hand. As the budget looms, so does the prospect that we will, after paying several sorts of tax on the property already, be hit by another chunk of tax. It’s always a tricky subject, as we need to pay tax for the services we want, but it’s also true that after fifteen years of living on minimum wage we aren’t actually rich. We just get caught up in the net along with the rich. It’s always been our position in society – too rich to get benefits and too poor to do more than bob along existing. Part of the problem is that when we did have good wages, we saved money and if you save money you are expected to pay your way. Meanwhile, the people who blow it all on holidays and parties, are given more because they didn’t save.
Nuthatch
If I had my time over again, I would do several things differently, and one of them would be to take measures to shelter my money from the government. I am having to provide all sorts of ID and proof relating to my savings but other people take millions off the state and it seems so easy. I( have to provide more documentation to spend my own money than these people need to make thousands of bogus claims. They took more than £50 million.
The answer seems so easy – if they are going to treat me as a criminal for wanting to buy a bungalow because I have bad knees, why don’t I commit fraud on a massive scale. Do a maximum eight years in jail and I would be out with enough money to live well for the rest of my life. Of course, people aren’t having to do much jail time these days, so I may get away with just a couple of years.
Red Crested Pochard
I don’t mind paying the taxes. It is paying the taxes and still not getting any decent services that grates. I am crossing my fingers that the present government can’t be as bad as the last three.
I’m not sure. I think we’d all be happier if we lowered our expectations. We can’t keep financing medical miracles for instance. Decent education, on the other hand, should be a basic right.
Keep putting one foot in front of the other. You and Julia will get through this move and all the associated problems.
See today’s post, when it is written. Changes are in hand. 🙂
I’ve never understood economics
There is the theory of “trickle down” economics. I think it is closer to “trickled on” economics. 🙂
🙂 🙂 😉 Sounds like my experience of economics!
Me neither. 🙂
I do hope Rachel Reeves does
It does seem as though those who have the least get taxed the most, relatively speaking.
It’s hard being responsible and average – you get no breaks. 🙂
I had a plan once to steal a certain amount of money, invest most, then lavishly and openly lose the rest, then have a fit of conscience and own up and declare that I’d lost it all at gambling. Then I’d do my time, get out early and then cash in my investment and live the life of Reilly. But I never did.
It’s a good plan. A friend of mine once shared a cell with a Zimbabwean bank robber. He’d hold up a small bank branch or building society, stuff the money in an envelope and post it home. Even when he was eventually caught they couldn’t work out where the money was. As with your plan, he came out, went straight and had quite a lot of money to invest.