Yes i do. Why should people with a home valued at more than the medium have it excluded and get welfare at the same time.
Simple downsize it buy something smaller and you get your welfare.
You really are serious, quite scary to be honest
Why? because it's the only bloody asset they have. If they have savings of $1000 in the bank how the hell are they supposed to live if their pension is cut? Just because you own your home doesn't mean you are wealthy.
Downsize? Newsflash you don't get "your welfare" because if you sell a house for $600k and buy a retirement unit for say $350k then you will get no welfare because you have too much cash.
The best thing the government could do it is have it included for say over 600k properties and anything less scaled down.
This wonderful system has people sitting on a property worth millions collecting welfare and laughing all the way to the bank
See above. It is really sad that you have no concept of the difference between "cash wealth" (eg cash in the bank, shares, etc) and someone owning a home.
Here's a history lesson. Our family home which my Mum bought in 1975 when my Dad died cost her $38k. When she sold it nearly 40 years later to live near us because her health was failing it was worth more than 10 times that amount. Are you seriously suggesting she didn't deserve a pension simply because of her postcode? Just because she didn't have a mortgage she certainly wasn't rich.
As for raising the eligibility well we are living longer so dont you think 65 had to change after being on that figure for many years.
Good budget but not hard enough. My hat goes off to TA
Yep great budget by Abbott, that very decent man you keep harping on about who is now just like Gillard a liar who breaks election promises
Truly great job
Lastly WP you were up in arms and have been so for a while now about cutting middle welfare but you cant bring it upon yourself to approve his middle cuts. Its a big blow to Fam Tax A and b recipients, whilst those over 180k are copping it sweet.
Thank you for proving that you only read and take in what suits you
For the god knows who many times I will repeat. I am very pleased that they have cut middle class welfare but (a) it doesn't cut deep enough and (b) it loses it impact with their pathetic and immoral PPL scheme remaining. He's robbed from area to pay for another. You want to make a statement then don't go ahead with something you cant' afford. You want to break promises then the PPL was the one that should have been broken
But in the next breath you punish those who struggle the most, the elderly. I have not changed my view on pensioners, have been very consistent you don't punish those who have paid taxes all their lives and barely survive from pension to pension. They link pension increases to the inflation rate. But pensioners get his hit the hardest with GP payments, PBS increases, the fuel levy increases etc. Guarantee you that no pension increase will cover all the other things they've been slugged with..
And what about his $250mil for putting Chaplains, yes Chaplains in schools. What a waste of money but gee he's done a really good job there hasn't he? Don't think there is anything you can say to justify that little money waster. But Tony's a decent family man so it must be good
I say this with no disrespect intended but you really need to get into the real world, walk a mile in someone elses shoes because you really don't get how hard it is for people that we should be supporting not whacking
