• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Lol, I got the reference. One of his other money raising schemes was to remove a lower tax rate on dividends paid to pension funds, helped herald the end of defined benefit pensions and possibly stagnation in UK stock markets.

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      4 months ago

      That’s excellent! Getting old is a fucker. Don’t get old; can’t recommend.

      I remember it too well. It heralded successive. -almost every - chancellors raiding our pensions because there wasn’t a real backlash to forcing us to have a pension and then raiding it.