They've already paid

Ministers are considering a so-called “retirement levy” which would see taxpayers pay a lump sum to the Government in order to meet the spiralling costs of residential and social care in old age.

But they've already paid

The proposals would see retirees make a one-off payment into a ‘national care fund’ which would go towards meeting the costs of funding their stay in residential homes, it is understood.

They've already paid

Officials in the Treasury and the Department for Health are considering the scheme as an alternative to hiking taxes to pay for the country’s social care costs, which are expected to soar as the number of over 65s balloons by 75 percent in the next two decades.

But, but..

They've already paid. We all have. All though our working lives we have to pay National Insurance. In fact we don't even pay it, in the true sense; the money is taken from us before we even get to hold it, straight out of our wages

So is it our fault that the Government did not wisely invest this money and use it for the things that NI is supposed to cover?

Is it our fault that the Government decided to spend all the money as soon as it went into the treasury?

Is it our fault that the Government thought it would be better to spend our hard earned money on wanton welfare, foreign aid, illegal wars, the EU and a plethora of other crap that it was never intended for?

No. Is it bollocks. So why should we have to stump up again?

National Insurance is clearly another Government scam that should be abolished. And so should all the rubbish that the Government saw fit to spend the money on. I fail to see why we should foot the bill for a fiscally irresponsible Government

Oh yeah. They have all the guns