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Recordo isto por causa de um artigo do FT do passado Sábado, "France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners." O artigo começa com este gráfico:
Os pensionistas franceses têm agora rendimentos médios mais elevados do que a população em idade activa.
"What do Theresa May and Andy Burnham have in common with Michel Barnier, François Bayrou and Emmanuel Macron? All five were admirably honest with the public about the trade-offs inherent in financing an ageing society, and all five were duly punished for their candour by the public, the press, opposition politicians or all three.The past two decades of French and British politics are a graveyard of proposals to slow the upward ratchet of spending on growing elderly populations....Not only do French pensioners get larger cheques from the government than their counterparts anywhere else in the west, they start getting them several years earlier. The result is a situation in which over-65s now have higher average incomes than the working age population - unique both internationally and in France's own history. Even the rumour of threats to this arrangement is met with mass public outrage and opposition from left and right....In a particularly stunning statistic highlighted by French political analyst François Valentin, pensions play such an outsized role in the country's public finances that they accounted for one-sixth of the ministry of defence budget last year, and without them France would not meet Nato's 2 per cent target for military spending. [Moi ici: Isto tem o seu lado caricato]...Voters often accuse politicians of fiscal sleight of hand, but here they are complicit in presuming ever larger pension cheques can be conjured like rabbits from a hat. At some point, both groups must confront mathematical reality."
Têm curiosidade sobre Portugal?
Nesta publicação, "Pensions at a Glance 2023," este outro gráfico com a mesma conclusão:
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