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As to your second point, shifting the tax load from retirement contribution to jobless benefits doesn't really make sense, as you say, unless the jobs are there.

That's not exactly what I said. What I said was that if the jobs aren't there, increasing retirement age will, in effect, only shift the tax load from retirement contribution to jobless benefits (because more people are forced to stay in the labor force, thus more people can't find jobs).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Sep 10th, 2008 at 04:42:16 PM EST
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Sorry - I was drawing the conclusion from what you said, and I accidentally added the words "as you say". The question will be how to convince politicians to increase taxes, rather than raising the retirement age, and then treating unemployment as a completely unrelated problem.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Sep 10th, 2008 at 04:53:26 PM EST
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