One thing I have to repeat yet again, the 'boomers' haven't shot themselves or anyone else in the foot over Covid, the 'boomers' don't make decisions on how the country is run, it's the Government, and do you really think that this or any other Government would have 'wisely' spent a single extra penny on the NHS than they could got away with? ask my daughter what her hourly pay is for keeping people alive
Why should you not pay for this, or any, unusual occurrence? who do you think paid for the first World War? the taxpayers of that period, who do you think paid for the Second World War? the taxpayers of that period and so it goes on, who paid for the foundation of the NHS which was very much at its beginnings for people who hadn't paid a penny towards it? I've never heard of any age group in this country complaining before now, I've paid tax since I was 16 years old and I'm still paying it now out of the pension I contributed toward, give me one good reason why I should pay your 'boomer' tax
Perhaps the biggest lie of all is the 'boomers had it easy' myth, double figure inflation, double figure unemployment, mortgage rates in excess of 16%, we didn't run our kids to school in the new BMW, we didn't have overseas holidays, we went to work and paid the mortgage
I only see the lack of 'intergenerational fairness' in this country coming from one direction, and that's from those that seem to think they have a divine right to have whatever they want, in most cases from those that have spent the majority of their lives in 'education', if that's what you can call modern schooling, and have yet to pay a penny towards themselves or anyone else
If we're going to get out of this mess we need all generations working together, something I see little chance of happening at this time, we also need a hell of a drop in self styled Coronavirus experts spouting off day after day with their scaremongering while they insult the 'real' experts for doing the same thing