Who said they were mutually exclusive? Death and taxes?? It was never implied or stated that the two ‘guarantees’ in life; death and taxes, were totally independent of one another. Because the dead will now be required to pay tax. In fact, they always have, in the form of ‘inheritance tax’ or as they now call it ‘death tax’. And its all our fault. For having the bare-faced cheek to live longer. Selfish bastards that we are. Better medicine, better food, diesel fumes, have all conspired to increase longevity. Which is lovely. Ahhhh, old people, aaahhhh, nice. But they’re not nice. Not at all. They’re parasites. They drain the NHS, spend all day filling every available space in doctor’s waiting rooms and refuse to die at 73 like they did in the old days. And when they reach even greater ages and even more debilitated stages, they need care. So get shipped into ‘homes’ where they are beaten by socially-minded nurses, fed swill and neglected, all of which costs a lot of money. Generally, tax-payers money.

So the government need to address this, in fact are addressing this. Because carers and care homes are expensive. Probably because the ‘smart money’ about 20 years ago was in creating them. Not for love of the elderly, but for the potential profits. A ‘shrewd investment’. Buy a big house, fill it with people who dressed like nurses but were actually martial arts trained, then wheel in the oldies by the lorry-load.

Thus ‘care’ will be provided but where the oldie has something of value, like a house, the cost of that care will be liquidated from its eventual sale.

I really don’t know what the answer is. Not totally sure what the question is. But when in doubt, just keep on taxing. Its what governments do best.

Everyone knows, salt is a ‘killer’. Add salt to food and you die. Simple. Eases the care home problem a bit, but not good. Salt hardens arteries, damages the heart, blah, blah, to the point where if someone sees a salt-cellar they shout “MURDERER!!!” Well no more. Another (fucking) study (have these people no real work to do?) has shown that salt, always known to be of value to a human body in small doses, might actually be good in larger doses too. And, the killer line, it may help with weight loss. A big ‘wow!’ It worked on mice. Gave them deathly levels of salt and they lost loads of weight.

So if you want your mice thin, give them lots of salt. For your own diet, the ‘everything in moderation unless you really like it and don’t count chocolate’ is always the way forward. You must be careful not to die young; you simply can’t afford it.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx