How can you support this madness ?

I and many others will stop contributing towards pensions – hence no work for person in pension brokers office – I do not like the idea of them taking .6% year after year like piranhas coming back to a defenseless corpse – since a pension is supposed to compound the effect of this is to remove far more value than .6% of the end value. ‘Temporary levies’ are bullshit – there is nothing temporary about them – once people get used to them they remain in place.

I looked at dissolving my pension – it is not possible to take any money out of your pension once you have been paying into it for more than two years – I would prefer to keep it under my mattress or gamble it away, anything to avoid this dirty grab

read these letters: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2011/0512/1224296751103.html

you really are going to great trouble for someone who couldn’t care less

@jimbob

“A new supplementary pension scheme will be introduced to provide additional retirement income for employees who are not already in a pension scheme. Employees earning above a certain income threshold will be automatically enrolled in this new scheme, and the State and employer will support this by providing matching contributions”

http://www.cardi.ie/news/newautoenrolmentpensionschemetobeintroducedfrom2014

what a depressing comment – seems you are ok with losing it all then. Not me – I manage my own and it is in the black for the period 2006-2011

how did the job creation initiative go at FAS?

the government complains that not enough people have pensions, then they force people to open one, then they force people to hand it over

I really hope this move turns out to be illegal – as one of the letters says the next stop is your deposit account

How can you support this madness ?

I and many others will stop contributing towards pensions – hence no work for person in pension brokers office – I do not like the idea of them taking .6% year after year like piranhas coming back to a defenseless corpse – since a pension is supposed to compound the effect of this is to remove far more value than .6% of the end value. ‘Temporary levies’ are bullshit – there is nothing temporary about them – once people get used to them they remain in place.

I looked at dissolving my pension – it is not possible to take any money out of your pension once you have been paying into it for more than two years – I would prefer to keep it under my mattress or gamble it away, anything to avoid this dirty grab

read these letter: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2011/0512/1224296751103.html

I object to the principle of the levy but we need to get real. The fluctuations of the equity Market has a more greater impact than this 0.6% levy. The 9/11 attack reduced my pension fund by more than 30%. it is important to remember that putting money into a pension fund is a huge gamble.

destroy jobs to create jobs – irish logic

jimbob is talking scutter

Jimbob = troll