Pensioners have been taxed enough

With reference to the National Insurance rise to fund social care, it amazes me to hear people say that those of pension age should contribute to their own care costs as they can afford it.

Most people like me, born in the 1950s, have worked all our lives, often since the age of 15, some even younger, with no Government support whatsoever. As workers still do today, we struggled to save to buy our homes, and there was certainly no ‘bank of mum and dad’. There were no restricted working hours and we endured conditions that today’s generation would not believe, and we got on with it.

What pensioners have now has been earned by hard work and frugal planning throughout their lives. Today’s generation has a ‘live now and don’t care how we get it’ attitude, which is why there is so much violence and so little respect for other people and the police.

We have suffered years of austerity. Where has the money gone? Not to pensioners.

Stop knocking the people who made this country great through sweat and toil.

Show your appreciation, and do not tax them to the grave.

Des Weare, Leeds