$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.

[freakiness]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
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.

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You know the first thing this childish government has to do is rework and blow the budgets of all Labor projects just so they can continue with the Labor are useless line.

[lakeland27]

 crikey do you have trouble retaining this info ? you've asked the same inane questions for years . i have no interest in wasting any more  effort on the topic . if you don't get it now you never will.

[silverfaun]

So it's infrastructure, so where does the money come from? what part of the pie does it swallow and who supplies more pie to to governments??

If a pie is  whole and all that pie is reserved there can be no more pie left to spread about, simple really.

Pie logic..lol

[just_me_karen]

WOOT

THANK YOU

I just learned quality education isn't important. Conservatives of the tea party genre don't like the minions to think for themselves ... they prefer them to let the important leader to do their thinking.

Schools? Kick out the kids and use them for LNP think tanks 🙂

And always always always rush to austerity when there's a recession. That worked fantastically in other countries.

[just_me_karen]

Thank you silver.

Infrastructure and productivity for the people is something we don't need. It costs money.

Dig up the roads! Except the ones our Dear Leaders use. Pave them with Gina's gold.

[pixie-six]

“Hello, everyone. This thread is becoming hostile & interpersonal. Please discuss the topic in a less hostile manner and be courteous towards each other. Thanks!"

[spotweldersfriend]

Oh no.Now we'll have to put the GST up to 15% to fund it.Maybe big business will chip in if we ditch penalty rates.

[nero_bolt]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@just_me_karen wrote:
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.

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You know the first thing this childish government has to do is rework and blow the budgets of all Labor projects just so they can continue with the Labor are useless line.

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Very true and glad to see that you agree and really most of Australia know that Labor are useless  and this does prove the point...... there are now 138 less Labor members of Federal, State and Territory parliaments than in 2010.

So the questions still stands....

WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM?

HOW DO WE PAY FOR THIS MASSIVE COST?

[spotweldersfriend]

Negativity in opposition.Negativity in government.Inspiring is the only word I can come up with.

[just_me_karen]

You misunderstood me, Nero.

We don't need to spend money. We're going to follow good tea party thought processes (double oxymoron anyone?) and get rid of anyone who needs help, stop education and cease all infrastructure. Then sell off the farm and dig up those space wasting forests.

Yay!