I cannot for the life of me understand how retirees in million $+ homes (or even $750k + homes (with no debt) - live off a government pension being paid for by my taxes. I know a 'few' elderly that do not want to sell their home, they'd rather live off a measly pension (getting helped by their kids.....) and then set their kids up for life with a Million Dollar inheritence.

It's a disgrace. Any Government pensions offered over the years should be deducted back from the Estate in my opinion and would have no issues if it were me in years to come as I'd be dead!

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Ben is forgetting that pensioners paid taxes all their working lives too. So they prepaid their measly pensions. None of today's pensions had the financial assistance that today's parents get from the government to support their children.

These days, $750k is getting to be rather a common price for an ordinary 3 bed home, where the pensioners may like to have their grandchildren over for sleepovers and the holidays. Perhaps Ben does not have children either to be able to consider the full impact.

And their houses will probably have to be traded off for a place in a nursing home when they get too ill to be independent.

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