Medicare levy hike to pay for the NDIS :(

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THE average worker could be hit with an increased Medicare levy of about $300 a year in next month's budget to help pay for the national disability insurance scheme.

The federal government is seriously considering increasing the Medicare levy from 1.5 to 2 per cent after Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned "urgent and grave" decisions were needed to cope with a $12 billion hit to tax revenue.

The Daily Telegraph understands while the higher Medicare levy would be presented as a reasonable form of "insurance" to protect families from the huge costs of coping with a disability, no final decision has been made whether to include it in the May 14 budget.

Ms Gillard will face attacks that it is another broken promise after she last year ruled out increasing the Medicare levy to pay for DisabilityCare

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/medicare-levy-hike-to-pay-for-the-national-disability-insurance-scheme/story-e6freuy9-1226631862091

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The below says it all as far as the poor average family goes in Australia, a never ending supply of taxes for the bottomless pit of the we want want want welfare mentality that has become entrenched in this country with so many.

I have to wonder just what will be cut and what services will miss out to pay for this, the money tree is dead and the money has to come from somewhere and NO the extra tax of .5% on medicare will NOT even go close to the massive massive cost of this scheme.

So who pays and who and what  misses out of funding  for a minority.....