Hard to imagine anyone would be stupid enough to partner the far-right Taxpayer’s Alliance.
So please step forward the Institute of Directors to propose such enlightened policies as freezing basic state pensions and cutting help for children from the poorest families, free TV licences for pensioners and other such unlightened action all designed with one purpose in mind: to make the best off richer and the poorest poorer.
And these people get air time for this programme for poverty creation.
Staggering.
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Why should all pensioners, regardless of wealth, get free TV licences? Surely any sort of soially inclusive society should not promote the idea that pensioners should be shoved in front of a TV and left to die? Is that really what we have come to?
I’d far sooner give the money spent on TV licences to funding places where pensioners could actually meet and interact with real people.
TV is not a necessity, its not even a luxury: it is something that we do not need and the use of which should not be encouraged.
Mad, only those over 75 get free licences. Personally I think that it would be more sensible to include BBC provision under general taxation since it is universally available and has no marginal cost. The cost of collection is not worth the bother. I am sure that the issue of state control could be overcome.
There are a lot of fairly bonkers things that are “given” to pensioners. “Free” TV licences are a good example. I have got better things to do than sit in front of a TV set. “Free” bus travel is another. I rarely use the thing as I prefer to walk or pay to go on the train as buses are uncomfortable. And 5 months of the year I am not in the UK so have to pay full price for my train and tram tickets. These “free” things are just gimmicks, if there is money to give away it should be added to the basic pension for people to spend as they choose. Which reminds me that Milton Freedman’s book was called Free to Choose. Not all of what he said was bad.