Are these people nuts?
Posted on 10/23/2011 5:55:55 PM PDT by little jeremiah
25million empty bedrooms across the country at a time when many are struggling to bu
Older people should be taxed out of their family homes to free up space for younger generations, says a report backed by Labour.
It argues that 'empty nesters' in their 60s are taking up too much room and should be 'encouraged' by a new 'land tax' to downsize to smaller homes.
The call comes from the Intergenerational Foundation, a left-leaning think-tank that aims to 'promote fairness between generations'.
Labour MP Tessa Jowell sponsored the report's launch in a Commons hospitality room yesterday, saying the current situation ran against Ed Miliband's vision for Britain.
But the 'bedroom blocker' plan drew condemnation from Tory ministers and pressure groups for older people.
Tory housing minister Grant Shapps said: 'We do not agree that people should be taxed or bullied out of their homes.'
The Intergenerational Foundation says there are 25million unused bedrooms in the country and eight million ‘under-occupied’ homes. More than half of people aged over 65 live in homes with two or more spare bedrooms that could be used by young families, it adds.
The report, Hoarding of Housing, says: ‘While younger families are increasingly being squeezed into small flats and under-sized houses, older people are often rattling around in big houses with many bedrooms standing empty, often for years.’
Report co-author Matthew Griffiths said: ‘It is perfectly understandable that retired people cling to their home long after it has outlived its usefulness as a place to bring a family up in.
‘But there are profound social consequences of their actions which are now causing real problems in a country where new house building is almost non-existent.
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Come n' GET me, coppers !
Absolutely.
I resisted getting “Enemies Foreign and Domestic” for a long time because I’m just not a fiction writer. Finally I got them “for hub” and he did practically NOTHING for about a week except read each book cover to cover, oftne reading out loud to me! I HIGHLY recommend them. They’re prophetic.
http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010
I got them from his own site so he’d get all the money.
;-)
We bought a set for our County Sheriff’s office to read, too.
First kick them out of their houses, then take their “unnecessary” possessions and “extra” money, and then - Soylent Green!!!
Sounds like a large number of these Labour leftists need to be lined up against the wall and shot by patriotic Brits ... Oh, silly me, the British government seized all private weapons years ago.
“Keep your laws out of my bedroom!!! - Put my laws on those old peoples bedrooms!!!”
Instead of taxing and forcing them to sell at your price, why not try offering more money until they like the price you are offering.
Today the old are taking up too much space. Tomorrow they will be taking up too much oxygen.
So basically what i am reading is that the british Government is thinking of stealing the the homes from their elderly and giving them to young muzzie families on welfare?
Thanks, although I wish these themes were still considered far-fetched fantasy.
Thanks, although I wish these themes were still considered far-fetched fantasy.
Almost sounds like an OWS demand, but the Brits always get there first with immoral laws.
We are only renting our houses from the school/unions anyway. How long until they begin telling us how to better utilize space in America?
Are these people nuts?
Interesting how the vices all the religions have always warned about - lust, greed, envy, anger, sloth, etc - are all now the mandatory cultural standards!
“Today the old are taking up too much space. Tomorrow they will be taking up too much oxygen.”
Yeah. And they eat too much and produce too much carbon too.
It never ceases to amaze me what an irritating lot of fascists call themselves liberals these days.
Coming soon to America, long as Democrats and their enablers have any say-so.
Don't worry, they'll have an oxygen tax before too long, and the only way some will be able to afford will be to turn in the old people to the death panels.
I have visions of Logan's Run running through my head, to make it fair for everyone and to have room, you get to die at 30.
Society doomed the last several generations, in their effort to be "fair", they forgot to teach that sometimes to get what you want in life you have to work hard for it, be an achiever, now all they teach is how to be a victim, and expect everything handed to them.
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