{"id":35420,"date":"2016-11-23T01:59:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/taxing-questions-for-the-chancellor-to-consider-letters\/"},"modified":"2016-11-23T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:04:43","slug":"taxing-questions-for-the-chancellor-to-consider-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/taxing-questions-for-the-chancellor-to-consider-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing questions for the chancellor to consider | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHow is \u201chelping low-income families to save\u201d a measure to help the \u201cjust about managing\u201d (Hammond told to help families \u2018just managing\u2019, 18 November)? On a low income you don\u2019t have money to save. With low savings rates, saving doesn\u2019t confer much benefit. On a modestly good income when I was young, it was very difficult to save the amount recommended for my pension.Our politicians should have experience of the real world. Maybe we should raise the age to become an MP and insist on demonstrating experience of working in a public sector. Going from a privileged background, studying politics and then entering parliament is not a recipe for a fairer society and understanding the problems of the disadvantaged. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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