Interesting... I feel that boomers refusing to retire is partly contributing to our high youth unemployment levels. On boomer retirement, some of our public services are a very high percentage of boomers, so we defiantly have a major issue to deal with soon. It will not be that there will not be enough young to replace them, but more the experience drain.
Quick question - which is the bigger problem; the boomers refusing to retire or the boomers leaving the workforce?
Throw away thought I guess - But the boomers that have squat to contribute will dig their toes in and refuse to go. Whereas those what's got a bit going for them will be out of there like the proverbial. Knowing they can come back in one way or another if they really need/want to - Least that's how voluntary redundancies have always worked - IME - With this phase being a bit like voluntary redundancies across the board - At this time at least ...
With that being about boomers who earn more than ?0K pa maybe? (60? 70? 80?) - With boomers earning less than that (with them not being the upper echelon pretty obviously) being damn happy to go regardless 'n leave their shitty jobs behind. To the youngies. Is my punt ...
Interesting... I feel that boomers refusing to retire is partly contributing to our high youth unemployment levels.
You must be kidding. The issue that your idiot mates at MB go one about is the ratio of workers to retirees on a pension, and now you are complaining about the one thing that will keep that ratio lower.
Now I've heard everything. One part of your complaint is that people are retiring and the other complaint you have is that they are not retiring.
The worst thing that you can dod for your kids is to let them aspire to receiving your inheritance. My 15yo hasn't spoken to me for a month since he found out that I wasn't going to buy him his dream first car, or any car for that matter.
You must be kidding. The issue that your idiot mates at MB go one about is the ratio of workers to retirees on a pension, and now you are complaining about the one thing that will keep that ratio lower.
Now I've heard everything. One part of your complaint is that people are retiring and the other complaint you have is that they are not retiring.
What would make you happy? Can we establish that?
Here is Leiths graph
Peter MB mates? You are suspicious indeed. While people stay in the workforce longer, that must put pressure at the other end on youth UE rates. The aged must move from success to significance and the youth from exclusion to inclusion.
All up, I feel it is more important to get youth UE rates down, rather than aged rates up.
Peter MB mates? You are suspicious indeed. While people stay in the workforce longer, that must put pressure at the other end on youth UE rates. The aged must move from success to significance and the youth from exclusion to inclusion.
All up, I feel it is more important to get youth UE rates down, rather than aged rates up.
Well can we take it that you want boomers to retire at 65 taking a pension rather than working on to support themselves.
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Well can we take it that you want boomers to retire at 65 taking a pension rather than working on to support themselves.
That all depends on why they would want to continue on working? Most boomers feel entitled to the pension, regardless of the value of their PPOR and some are delusional enough to think that they are owed the tax paid during their working life back.
If someone actually 'needs' to continue to work, fine, however if they are just trying to build an asset pool outside of their PPOR which they own outright, then yes, they should retire.
Once again, I am currently lobbying for the VG amount over $500k to be included in the asset test.
That all depends on why they would want to continue on working? Most boomers feel entitled to the pension, regardless of the value of their PPOR and some are delusional enough to think that they are owed the tax paid during their working life back.
If someone actually 'needs' to continue to work, fine, however if they are just trying to build an asset pool outside of their PPOR which they own outright, then yes, they should retire.
Once again, I am currently lobbying for the VG amount over $500k to be included in the asset test.
Paul, one of the nations real resource is its labour force, but you want to reduce that in an effort to make us all wealthy. Totally absurd.
We live in a nation that just doesn't encourage people to save via superannuation, it's COMPULSORY for workers to save for their retirement. The government also encourages home ownership so they don't have to provide it.
What you propose will discourage people from participating in providing for their own retirement which might in fact lead to a far worse state than we would otherwise end up in. People may simply spend their savings to qualify for the aged pension if you are going to tax the life out of them or take away their pension entitlements.
Then the state can pay for their hip replacements, nursing home care and hospitalisation without any contribution from them. I know that it's fashionable for your mates at macrobusiness to make simplistic suggestions without fear of anyone questioning what they say, but you haven't thought this through. How do you know the state will be better off, and the general populace will be better off. Have you really looked at the repercussions of this proposal. When you change a tax or benefit you alter peoples behaviour. People generally are not greedy, but given options people will always take the option that benefits them the most - surprise surprise.
And how will you convince people to vote for a change that would hurt them all when they retire?
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