Valkie wrote on Jan 18
th, 2022 at 5:49pm:
John Smith wrote on Jan 18
th, 2022 at 5:02pm:
Valkie wrote on Jan 18
th, 2022 at 11:45am:
Not conned, just sick to death of lazy parasites sitting on their fat arses doing nothing and demanding more to do it.
you mean those like you?
No, more like you.
I have done my time 47 years fully employed.
Paid my taxes all my life.
Done my job and been a worthwhile employee.
Now Im retired, living on my own money, I get nothing from the system I have supported all my life.
Paying for dole bludgers, abbos, illegal immigrants, single mothers who keep churning out kids for cash and a whole lot of other parasites.
I owe no one anything
And everyone owes me.
You get the invalid pension, you silly old thing, you know that. It's the reason you're hustling for a pension rise and cuts to the dole. You're just scrounging at the table for scraps, fighting off your fellow beggars.
As the OP points out, the problem is the wealth floating to the top - not due to any natural economic forces, but government regulation and subsidies.
We could fix many of these problems in one go: a universal basic income, a plan proposed by the billionaires themselves: Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, etc.
Mechanisation is steadily replacing the majority of jobs: manufacturing, transport, warehousing, retail; these workforces are about to be decimated. Even the service sector is being outsourced to foreign call centres, if not to bots.
It's pointless blaming dole bludgers when the shortage of jobs is systemic. The billionaires themselves are acknowledging this - many are
asking to be taxed. Bill Gates puts the growing income gap and wealthy tax evasion up there with malaria and lack of clean drinking water as a pressing global problem.
We could replace all those benefits - the pension, the dole, child subsidies - with a universal basic wage. No work for 20 years, no cut-off after a year, no means testing, everybody. The payment could then be taxed accordingly, or taken back, based on your income.
We've seen the results - the covid payments were an economic stimulus that saved us from recession. Problem is, we borrowed the money rather than taxing the wealthy. The result? The cash just flowed into the coffers of Harvey Norman et al.
A reasonable universal income of about $300 a week paid to all working-age adults would more than double our Centrelink budget, so we'd need a wealth tax to cover it. No problem, the big billionaires are already supporting that. This is an idea who's time has come.
Stop fighting for scraps, leftards, let's give everybody a fair go and take back our fair share. Companies will still do business in Australia. It's time to take the next logical step in human evolution.
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