Oh Yay, ACT are going to throw Gen X under the retirement bus…
ACT commits to raising pension age
ACT leader David Seymour says New Zealand must start raising the pension age, raising it three months every year until it reaches 67 years old.
“We have to be honest and say we’re in a hole… countries are raising their ages of retirement to at or above 67,” Seymour said.
The ACT leader dismissed concerns about the fairness of a blanket increase to the age of superannuation, rather than means testing.
…Yay!
The first generation of user pays, Gen X, are now going to have to wait longer to get their Super if National and ACT win the 2023 election!
It’s not enough that Gen Xers had to pay for their own education, it’s not enough that while they were paying that student debt off and Boomers were speculating them out of the housing market, now we are being told that those Boomers are pulling the Super ladder up behind them!
So Boomers speculate Xers out of the housing market, never fucking retire so that Xers can’t progress their careers and NOW they are taking their Super up with them?
Look you Boomers, I know you’ve had it good with your subsided life from cradle to grave, but sweet Jesus there is going to be such a backlash against you the very second Millennials + Gen Y + Gen Xers are a bigger voting black, and that’s predicted to be the 2023 election.
I know you boomers feel pleased as punch to get one past us by electing the Boomer King in Auckland as he privatises assets you won’t be alive to see the consequences of the sale of, but I’m telling you, raise our Super just because you want untaxed capital gains, there’s going to be a political backlash coming for you.
If you are a Gen Xer, you just got another reason not to vote National or ACT!
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I’m gen X and this is inevitable.
Our generation and those after have a less free ride and lower standard of living than the boomers for a bunch of reasons.
You don’t have to like it but we do have to face reality.
Because rick pricks like you dont want to pay a single cent extra in cash.
And what are the people between 65 and 67 going to do? Be pushed further into poverty. You are completely heartless. YOu would have thousands of people living on the streets rather than pay 1 more dollar in tax to have a roof over their heads.
Keepcalmcarryon needs to get a concreting job or any labouring job and find out what “facing reality” really means instead of his soft free loading on the tax payer. Really needs to gain a few life skills to have an understanding of reality.
They could sell a liver if they are too poor to retire.
i think you mean a kidney. try living without your liver. did they not teach you basic human biology in what ever poor excuse of a private school you went too?
David Seymour is not a boomer – born 1983, I think that makes him a millennial, and a very privileged one at that. He has always worked in public policy areas, and has most often been generously paid out of state coffers.
Plenty of us boomers have never owned property, and I for one, am against raising the retirement age. It certainly will do nothing to counter income & wealth inequalities. ACT is for the well-off of all generations.
Well said Karolyn_IS
Seymour’s voting base is white Epsom & Remueraites who will not be affected by this policy, most of them have $$$’s coming out their ears.
Bang on Ngungukai, now that’s a post that epitomizes reality, none of this bullshit about inevitability.
Seymour’s plan to build prisons and put more police on the streets says it all. Trying to copy the trend in the USA to solve problems with police, courts and prisons.
Better to have compulsory superannuation like Australia and help those less able to contribute.
David Seymour is the biggest threat to social cohesion and living standards in this country. He is not doing to be effected by a raise in the pension age, as he will be taken care of. But there are thousands of New Zealanders who will. Not just manual work, but the sick, poor and disabled as well as women – especially single women and those who care for family members. Also the people who have been unable to work, or who have been unable to find jobs.
Its all very well, to say, raise the age to 65, but it actually affects real people. Having to wait for 2 years more years having to work a minumum wage job (a lot of people can reduce their hours and work part time), or stuck on the sickness or invalids benefits having to choose whether to have dinner or pay the power bill.
Raising the super age and indexing it to prices, will just cause more poverty in this country. but David Seymour is perfectly happy with poverty and homelessness in this country. As are most of the people on here.
Millsy I agree, we can’t let the Boomers win this one. It stays at 65. The French argue about 60 don’t they.
Seymour can find savings some where else. Like reducing Mps to 90 from 120.
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