Whilst those unfortunate enough as I have had to rely on a welfare pittance to survive below the poverty line, the gov has gone about demonising us as welfare cheats bludging off taxpayers. Many in agreement with that are middle income people who work very hard for their money (as I did for 30 years full time before I became ill) who get sucked in to the gov rhetoric that those on welfare are just bludging off the system whilst they go to work to pay for it.
Simplistic logic but it works for a lot of people. The notion that working people shouldn't stand idly by whilst the gov puts the boot in to the most vulnerable Australians seems to escape them.
However what also seems to have escaped them is that if the gov can rip $4 billion dollars out of the poorest Australians, and they don't stand up for them, who is the gov going to go after next? If they get away with it with us, who's to say who'll they'll try it on with next?
Well it turns out that now the gov has done just that. They're now kicking Howard's battlers. As with us on welfare being gouged $4 billion as the gov wants $50 billion in tax cuts for corporations that pay fuck all tax anyway, the so called Howard Battlers will bear the highest brunt of that in tax increases.
I feel like saying I told you so.
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