$22 billion a year for the NDIS? Plus blowouts?

[nero_bolt]

How do we afford this, what programs have to suffer or not get funding to pay for this madness?

Where does the money come from?

Completely predictable, but Labor still insisted on seeming good by promising a welfare scheme that ..., and the Liberals did not dare to completely oppose it:

COSTS on the pilots for the new national disability care program blew out by as much as 30 per cent in the first six months, hitting $46,000 a person, punching a hole in the May budget and threatening billion-dollar hits in the years ahead.

The blowout in the national disability insurance scheme is part of the “shocking” turnaround from the surplus Labor predicted for 2017-18 to a $32 billion deficit that Joe Hockey revealed to state treasurers yesterday…

For the following three months, from October to December last year, the average cost per person in the pilot programs had dropped to $40,466 but was still 15 per cent above the average budgeted cost…

The NDIS is due to be fully operational in 2019-20 at a current estimated annual cost of $22bn, including state government contributions.

[silverfaun]

The medicare rise?? that doesn't even cover health now? so I ask again?? how will this scheme be funded and where is the money for it.

Governments don't have money, taxpayers have money and governments use it for policies that are  taken to the people before an election.

If Abbott said he would see NDIS through then that's what he'll do, he cannot do otherwise because Labor and the Greens legislated it and now it's LAW. A land mine no one can get around.

 Where is the money for it. Where will the money come from?

[silverfaun]

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@diamond-halo wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

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@diamond-halo wrote:

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@silverfaun wrote:

LL the minions (sic) are asking where and how this scheme will be financed.

Just calling names and branding everyone  liars is not the answer so if we could have the benefit of your sage advice on this it would be very much appreciated.

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I've asked that all along.

not just about this, but the NBN, Gonski et al

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The NBN is not funded by the budget, for about the hundred and sixty fourth time.

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what's it funded by?

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What's it funded by?? I'd like to know that too.

[*crikey*mate*]

I know!

Maybe, we could get a loan!

Oh wait.....

[lakeland27]

panic in the liar camp .. this is a big nall in the tory pine box

finished.. finished i tell ya ..

[*crikey*mate*]

maybe so.

Ms Gillard ensured the downfall of a Prime Minister before, so......

sabotage by a retrospective government

Set the putsch in motion!

Hang on, scratch that idea

no beer halls available, they're all hocked to the hilt!

[*crikey*mate*]

plenty of school halls that aren't being used, though!

WOOT

can you have a putsch in a school hall?

[freakiness]

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@diamond-halo wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

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@diamond-halo wrote:

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@silverfaun wrote:

LL the minions (sic) are asking where and how this scheme will be financed.

Just calling names and branding everyone  liars is not the answer so if we could have the benefit of your sage advice on this it would be very much appreciated.

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I've asked that all along.

not just about this, but the NBN, Gonski et al

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The NBN is not funded by the budget, for about the hundred and sixty fourth time.

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what's it funded by?

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You know how it's funded and if you've forgotten you know how to research.

[*crikey*mate*]

LOL

[just_me_karen]

So you support not supporting people who need help, because it costs money?

Perhaps we should put them to sleep 🙂 That'd save heaps.

And yes, it has been fully funded.

[just_me_karen]

The NBN is infrastructure and will be funded like all infrastructure.

I know. Lets all use dial up, it'd save heaps of money!

I'm learning how to think like a tea party conservative.

Disability? Nembutal.
Technology? Dial up

What else do I need to learn?