As it's more than 100 days now, it has been suggested that a new thread was needed. The current govt has been breaking promises and telling lies at a rate so fast it's hard to keep up.
This below is worrying, "independent" pffft, as if your own doctor is somehow what? biased, it's ridiculous. So far there is talk of only including people under a certain age 30-35, for now. Remember that if your injured in a car, injured at work or get ill, you too might need to go on the DSP. They have done a similar think in the UK with devastating consequences.
and this is the 2nd time recently where the Govt has referred to work as welfare???? So when you go to work tomorrow (or tuesday), just remember that's welfare.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-20/disability-pensioners-may-be-reassessed-kevin-andrews/5400598
Independent doctors could be called in to reassess disability pensioners, Federal Government says
The Federal Government is considering using independent doctors to examine disability pensioners and assess whether they should continue to receive payments.
Currently family doctors provide reports supporting claims for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).
But Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews is considering a measure that would see independent doctors reassess eligibility.
"We are concerned that where people can work, the best form of welfare is work," Mr Andrews said at a press conference.
"Firstly these are old stats monman. 2010-2011?.....does not allow for all those that have been made redundant in both private and public service sectors."
That is a silly reply, as the proportions have not varied in a meaningful terms for some years, and if you bothered to think you would realise that an increased pool of: unemployed would make your assertion(s) nonsensical.
Australian 2013
ALMOST 13 million Australians file a tax return each year, but only the top fifth of households really contribute to Australia's vast and complex social-security apparatus.
More to your liking (I doubt it)" but applicable here!
March 01, 2014
THE degree of ignorance about the distribution of tax across households is remarkable, especially given that the truth is so easily and freely accessible
The Left typically tries to create the impression the “rich” aren’t paying their “fair share”. Consider former treasurer Wayne Swan’s attacks on “mining billionaires” and welfare groups’ continual prattling about the financial benefit of concessional super taxation to high-income earners.
The Right, meanwhile, evokes the ordinary, “battling” taxpayer, whose hard-won earnings, so the argument goes, are siphoned off to pay for inefficient or ineffective government programs.
But the overwhelming bulk of people in Australia pay no net tax at all. High-income earners have become a giant pinata that the majority hit for extra money to pay for whatever new social spending programs the political class proposes to stay in office.
Put simply, only the top fifth of households paid any tax. The bottom 6.9 million households, while often incurring income tax liabilities and regularly paying GST, received more in cash welfare and services than they paid in.
Digest that current data with some cocoa.
Many top earners cram their profit making ventures e.g. property port folios....into their SMSF arena.
So they can 'avoid' paying tax.....legally
.....a terrific 'loophole' if you can get the gig I guess
