Pensioners have paid enough tax – leave them alone!

TAXING pensioners who are already faced with higher inflation and rising care costs would be a desperate measure from a failing Chancellor under enormous pressure to fill a £20billion black hole in public finances.

- Tim Newark

FAILING: Taxing pensioners would be seen as a desperate move from Ms Reeves

The suggestion, from the left-wing Resolution Foundation, would be a disgraceful betrayal of generations who have already paid a lifetime of tax and take pride in not being a burden.

But we can’t rule it out when it comes to Rachel Reeves.

Before my mother passed away earlier this year, she was paying £7,000 a month for her care home. It was an enormous sum that came directly from her savings, yet she was still being taxed on her modest pension income.

You would have thought the Government would have exempted my mother on account of her taking responsibility for her own care at no further cost to the state. Not a bit of it.

POLITICIANS like Ms Reeves see older generations as a golden goose to be plucked. Why? Perhaps because they are an easy target - and many have certainly already made up their minds that this Government is useless and they will never vote for them again.

The Resolution Foundation, which has close ties to senior Labour figures, says the Chancellor should cut national insurance by 2p and add it to income tax.