Roddons Housing Association, the state run organisation that owns all the council houses in Wisbech have ordered a group of elderly residents who brightened up their accomodation with some carpets and flowers to remove it immediately.
And this, to me, gets to the heart of why I am a libertarian.
The old people rent their current accomodation from the state which can boss them about as it holds the power to make them homeless. So the situation these old people face is to be beholden to the state for both housing and income.
But it shouldn’t be like that. These old people have paid a huge amount of tax in their working lives and because they have paid so much they are not able to make their own provision but must beg the state for a few crumbs.
Imagine a very low tax society like libertarians advocate. These old people would have been able to buy their own homes and after 25 years of paying the mortgage would own them outright. No more having to beg the almighty state for some of your own money back in the form of a pension, no more having to accept a grotty state flat that won’t contain all your furniture and no more interfering busybody to tell you how to decorate.
I have also seen figures that indicate that if they had been allowed to make private provision for their pensions instead of being forced onto the state ponzi scheme then their pension could have been between 50 and 100% higher.
Remember, these old people don’t live in council housing because they are poor, they are poor because the state has taxed them into poverty.
The Libertarian Party manifesto illustrates how we will honour pension commitments and welfare benefits while gradually shrinking the size of the govt so as to greatly reduce the tax burden for everyone.
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Imprint – as required by electoral law. Printed and promoted by Andrew Peter Hunt of 73 Camargue Place, Wisbech, Cambs, PE13 2SX
