{"id":161579,"date":"2025-09-25T23:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-wrong-to-blame-boomers-for-britains-inequality-and-economic-woes-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:33:47","slug":"its-wrong-to-blame-boomers-for-britains-inequality-and-economic-woes-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-wrong-to-blame-boomers-for-britains-inequality-and-economic-woes-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s wrong to blame boomers for Britain\u2019s inequality and economic woes | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s more complicated than that, says Rosa Anderson in response to an article by Phillip Inman, while Peter Mather says boomers are being stereotyped, and Moira Sykes says the article picks the wrong targetOh no, not again. Guardian readers deserve better than Phillip Inman\u2019s tedious and hateful boomer-bashing (Boomers think their wealth came from wise choices \u2013 this myth needs busting, 20 September). This summer we\u2019ve had his tax plans (tax boomers more), his suggestions for dealing with the housing crisis (kick boomers out of their homes), his idea for boomer \u201cnational service\u201d built around volunteering, and now his attacks on older people\u2019s occupational pensions. Goodness, Phillip, you really can\u2019t let this obsession with boomers go, can you?Economic inequalities \u2013 and with them social and health inequalities \u2013 are getting worse, and while Inman tells us with monotonous regularity that \u201cit\u2019s the boomers wot dun it\u201d, it is in fact a little more complicated. Generation is a far less important factor than gender, race, disability and, above all, class, and if we don\u2019t start looking at intra-generational inequalities we are going nowhere \u2013 not least because wealthy parents raise wealthy children, and support them financially to a value about 26 times more than poorer parents in the same generation, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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First, the baby boomer generation inherited one of the highest levels of public debt in British history: 240% of GDP, following the war. They got that down to under 32% by the 1990s. The fact\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44768,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/baby-boomers-dont-deserve-to-be-punished-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":161579,"position":4},"title":"Baby boomers don\u2019t deserve to be punished | Letters","date":"February 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I was incensed when I read Phillip Inman\u2019s article Baby boomers, pay your dues (14 February). I am shocked at the bad feeling and bad publicity towards pensioners in the media. 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