I think however it is important to note that tax revenues are increasing, both in nominal and real terms, and are expected to continue to do into the future.
For various reasons these kids were not keen on moving to the Whitsundays, cutting their hair, donning uniforms, and taking up menial jobs. We can only hope it honestly pays attention to the real effects of the changes. I think we can easily articulate the problem, but need alongside that problem, articulate the solution, bearing in mind both the short and the long term impact of an ever increasing welfare commitment when taxation revenue will most likely be decreasing. THE government is making a lot of noise about welfare payments, but it pays to look a little deeper at the issue.Doctors, roads, education — the government helps us all in different ways.THE government is making a lot of noise about welfare payments. Very few of them move into group 10 — Previous Welfare recipient.What happens to 15-year-old females receiving parent payments.The PwC report the government is relying on says this:“Particular groups of interest are young parents and young carers — although these do not represent large numbers of the population, they are at particular risk of remaining reliant on welfare.”This case is a fine example of why you need to be careful interpreting data. I am currently trying to exist on an AUSTUDY allowance of $556.50 per fortnight which is $228.25 per week. The Dole Bludger Myth and Government Policy: ‘Support the System that Supports You’ The mythical – or legendary if you so prefer – figure of the dole bludger has haunted our political folklore since the Whitlam years of the 1970s. But I disagree.As it happens, I’m in that lucky half. But anyway, the majority of those trillions has nothing to do with dole bludgers, or what Joe Hockey calls “leaners”, or people on disability support.The majority of it is people who worked their whole life, paid a great deal of tax, and now get the aged pension. America has tried this system and there poverty is entrenched.Half of all Aussies have received a welfare payment at some point and some of them have got more than one.
This isn’t the result of tax increases but real GDP growth (a. the economy grows does tax revenue). The attitudes of people towards homeless people are similar, ignorantly suggesting they all exist in this place because of bad choices, or self-inflicted addiction to name a few. What drives future welfare is not the payments. It is most likely the presence of a child to raise, not to mention the interruption to schooling that is likely to happen when you give birth age 15.Take away that woman’s welfare and what do you get? They were the original celebrity “dole bludgers”, the family A Current Affair dragged into infamy and acrimony in 1996. But the dole bludger is a creature a bit like the Tasmanian Tiger. The mythical – or legendary if you so prefer – figure of the dole bludger has haunted our political folklore since the Whitlam years of the 1970s. The red bar in the graph below is the aged pension.The green bar in the graph marked “B — IS Working Age” shows Income Support, which includes Newstart (the dole) alongside sickness allowance and various supports for people studying and working. People claim they saw one, but their continued existence is largely a myth. (Some people claim the Disability Support Pension is the new home of the bludger, but getting the payment and staying on it is actually perfectly consistent with actually being incapacitated).The government claims the total lifetime cost of our welfare system is $4.7 trillion. The other, luckier half might feel they are entitled to expect more. The 2012 poverty report by the Australian Council of Social Services, updated earlier this year, puts this myth to bed. I strongly doubt it is going to be a happy woman and a well-fed baby that goes on to thrive. IT IS one of the criticisms levelled against people on welfare, but new figures may prove it’s actually not true. While I own the flat that I live in, I still have to pay Council Rates and Body Corporate fees (where I currently owe over $3500.00), as well as utilities (gas, water, electricity, telephone/internet), and own and run a car, although I generally ride a bicycle to commute.
Abundant jobs just aren’t out there, especially for younger and older Australians.Australia has 800,000 people on Newstart payments (i.e.