OK, so it's very odious to walk back from an election promise.
But if the election promise is fundamentally wrong, as this is, in scale and principle, it's better to acknowledge your mistakes and ditch it. The Labor scheme should be ditched as well.
People shouldn't be supported by the taxpayer to have kids. It's their own responsibility, always was, always should be.

While he's at it, he should ditch all tax concessions on superannuation. Every clause & loophole!

Do both these things and there will be ample funds to increase welfare proper - newstart, disability, pension - as well as get the budget in proper balance.

You're the only Richard Cranium around here - correction: you're a standout.
If you followed the signals you would know that Abbott is not planning cuts to the pension in the near future, nor in health or education. He may be planning more efficient spending, for which he deserves support & praise.

I have no problem with the pension age being lifted to 70 from the muted 2035.
All boomers will be either dead or already receiving it & thanks to Keating all Xer's , Y's & OO will have had super co contributions since starting work.

If they cant live off super from whatever age they decide to retire till 70 well, to my mind that's not the governments fault or the tax payers responsibility.

As for the rest I've heard.......same old same old, protect & reward the already comfortable whilst demonising & punishing the less fortunate.

S.O.P Liberal party.

Standard Operating Proceedor

Dsmithy70 wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 10:48am:


Not that, the sentence before that - the same old same old bit.
What are you referring to?

I thought that was your preferred standard of communication. If you want to lift the standard in future, let me know and I'll try to oblige.

Dsmithy70 wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 10:35am:


They'll still have to work until Superannuation preservation age to access their benefits

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 24^th, 2014 at 10:54am:



Well lets just look at whats been floated.
2 examples of each

Protecting well off:
1) Scrap mining tax - we have revenue shortfalls yet this will be axed apparently because it strangles these poor companies.
BHP's after tax profit rose 80% last year, hardly strangling business

2a) PPL - we already agree this is ridiculous

2b) If revenue is the issue why shouldn't those who earn OVER 200K in super returns pay a nominal tax of 15 cents in every $ over the 1st 200K?

No instead of the above revenue measures we get,

Punish the less fortunate:

1) We have a $6 fee for GP visits - every doctor I know of only bulk bills concession card holders the rest pay full whack & only get about 40% back through medicare.
This go visit the doc for a chat is crap, people, well people I know only go as a last resort or for their yearly checks.

2) DSP user require an "Independent" doc cert - quotations around Independent because they will be anything but, paid by Gov & will have quota's.


I'd like to think our pollies are smarter than the above but it seems not, BTW I'd expect the same crap ideas from Labor.

Our political class ATM has anything but brains or class, a sh!thouse rat has more of both