@i-need-a-martini wrote:
@idlewhile wrote:
@am*3 wrote:@idlewhile wrote:
This is the myth perpetrated by many that all the welfare entitlements are free, doctors visits, hospitals and educatiion is free.
NO it isn't never has been and never will be. OUR taxes pay for it all. The working people of Australia pay for these services by paying income tax.
They are free to the people who do not participate in the workforce and therefore they don't pay tax to contribute to their use of these services.
Those are free public services - public schools, public hospitals, bulk bill clinics - available to all.
These services are not free, have never been free and never will be free. They are paid for by income tax paid by workers. OK!
Is that your issue? Taxes? Is that it? Is that really all it boils down to? That you object to your taxes being used to support indigenous communities?
Cause if so I have the answer: I (as well as many others) are more than hapy for OUR taxes to go toward keeping traditional communities alive. So WE will pay for it.
YOU can pay YOUR share of taxes to keep those real leeches subsidised - global corporations and mining companies. Cause I don't want my taxes to keep those **bleep**s and their shareholders profitable.
There. Now we are even.
Read ALL my posts and you will never find one word that I object to my taxes going to support anybody anywhere in this country.
I find your post completely antagonistic and uncalled for, you are putting your own spin on it and attributing a tenet that I never said I adhered to, never uttered a single word to that effect.
Your spin on it is hostile and patently untrue.
Take a deep breath and calm down.
