http://www.brucellama.com/2012/04/19/2748/ That's one crazy Llama Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.4 http://www.brucellama.com/2012/04/19/2748/comment-page-1/#comment-2296 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:08:01 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=2748#comment-2296 The government is currently reducing some welfare by reducing the private health insurance rebate for higher income earners. Joe Hockey opposed this as the opposition always does, but now he comes out and says that there’s too much welfare. He can’t have it both ways.
However, in some ways I agree with him. Too many Australians think that the government owes them something, eg “I pay taxes don’t I?” If all govt handouts were called “welfare” rather than “rebate” or other words, maybe people would realise how much they are actually getting and wouldn’t complain so much.

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