Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
If they're all paying into NI, and taxes, you do.
The aging population in all the mature western industrial nations requires either working-age people with constantly rising incomes, or a steady supply of immigrants, or both, to pay for the increased costs of future social provision.
The numerator is growing -- old people. The denominator -- the number of working-age people supporting each of those olds, or their income, or both -- has to grow to maintain a given level of social provision.
Fully understand that. But where is this steady supply of immigrants going to live, be educated and go when they are ill?