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Re: General Discussions

Reply #2610 –
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Chalmers buying votes by allowing workers to claim $1,000 in deductions without any receipts needed. Labor just cant stop spending and adding to inflation and high debt levels.
True, but clinging onto that stuff when it's really just a drop in the ocean excuses the absence of any real opposition.

Economies work on 3 or even 4 orders of magnitude higher as the bare minimum.

A $1000 sounds great to those struggling, but it's not even covering the fuel rises for the average worker.

Let alone the shoeboxes that can now go to recycling.
Let’s go BIG !

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2611 –
The Albanese Government is drawing a line in the sand favouring younger Australians over older Australians, telling around 3 million over-65s that they will pay the same amount for private health insurance as younger Aussies.
The Howard-era government in 2004 introduced an extra incentive for older Australians to keep them in private health care and reduce the pressure on the public hospital system. These bonus rebates reduced the effective costs of private health insurance for this group by 30–40%.
Chalmers has admitted there is a risk older Aussies will bail on their Private health Insurance and go back to the public system forcing Health Insurers to raise their premiums even more and put the Public health system under more pressure but says he sees this as a way of evening up intergenerational wealth.
Its clear Labor believes many older voters favour the Coalition or One Nation now and thats their main focus on cost savings.
Of course he has already indicated the NDIS will take a hit next budget too so if you are old and disabled look out you might get turned into biscuits to feed the young if we have a famine anytime soon.....see Soylent Green the movie.
 

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2612 –
It's not a recent development, Paul Keating went through the public health system while still on the political front line!

FWIW, I think the 20 - 30 year old segment needs incentives to again take politics seriously, if not they all end up voting for Hanson and that will be even worse for Australia than Brexit or MAGA. Australia does not have the economic scale or inertia to withstand that sort of destructive politics.

All this media commentary about "Draining the swamp" is utter garbage, they post that because they are overpaid fatties who think the consequences of provoking turmoil won't affect them. They are a bunch of mini-Kyles who have opinions bigger than their ar5e!

But you know the media will be the front-line bleaters when the economic consequences of political turmoil hit their wallet.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"