Its a bit like insurance, you/we take out insurance against future mishaps. If the unthinkable happens then you are covered by your policy in this case your taxes which has been paid in full to the government.
I still stand by my post that states as I am a pensioner I am entitled to enjoy the benefits of my retirement.
60 years of working hard= 60 years of paying taxes which have gone up over the years by my rough calculations result in me paying taxes of100k over 60 years of work. Think about that, so for all you young 'uns who are winging about us pensioners you haven't lived yet so get off your high pedestal and try to put your views over us pensioners in more constructive manner.
We have done our bit now do yours. Thanks.
You have done nothing remotely special or out of the ordinary. I don't know why you imagine you have. Even your 100k looks paltry now; I pay £12k+ a year in taxes; if I haven't beaten your lifetime sum already in raw numbers, I won't be far away.
Every penny you have spent in taxes bought you the services available to you at the time. In our society they also bought you the "entitlement" to still be looked after by the NHS and to still use those services even when you were not contributing
Those taxes did not entitle you to a triple lock on a state pension, nor to keep all your hoarded wealth while younger people are sacrificing their pay and their social lives to protect you.
Nor did your taxes go to contribute to paying for an historic and unprecedented future crisis. You did not contribute in advance to this crisis. You have contributed nothing to it, either in economic terms or, most likely, in labour. Nothing you have paid in taxes in the past anticipated nor contributed to the recovery from this. Your lifetime taxes are NOTHING like insurance at all
COVID is a new and unprecedented crisis; you must pay your share like the rest of us. Your parents and grandparents didn't shrug their shoulders in the war and say "enough, I've done my bit"; their generations bought war bonds and paid higher taxes later to pay for it. The minimum the elderly should pay is to sacrifice the already immoral triple lock, which the country already couldn't afford.
Do you really believe the triple lock (brought in by a party you then voted out of office) is an entitlement? Do you truly believe that your generation owes nothing in contribution to recovery?
Because it's that attitude that will eventually have the young part of the country refusing to comply and leaving your generation to fend for itself with no lockdown protection. If you believe you have the right to shirk your fair share you had better hope that vaccine (which my taxes are paying to put in your arm) works