Agent641@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agoin Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent onlemmy.worldimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1115arrow-down1imagein Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent onlemmy.worldAgent641@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregleph@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoI love that it helps you see how little of the welfare payments are going to the unemployed, since that’s the part that concerns people the most.
minus-squareDeez@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoThat’s a newer addition, when it first came out under a conservative Goverment, all welfare was grouped together.
minus-squareRisk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoClassic Conservative tactic. “Evil, stupid, greedy-” stuffs pockets “-jobless, welfare scroungers!” stuffs pockets “Pensioners, vote for me to bring down our welfare spending!”
minus-squareZ3k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoUk government tried this a few yrs ago trying to spin the welfare part as work shy bambots then it came out that the lions share was pension pots that took up most of it with the teachers pensions being the one the media focused on
I love that it helps you see how little of the welfare payments are going to the unemployed, since that’s the part that concerns people the most.
That’s a newer addition, when it first came out under a conservative Goverment, all welfare was grouped together.
Classic Conservative tactic.
“Evil, stupid, greedy-” stuffs pockets “-jobless, welfare scroungers!” stuffs pockets “Pensioners, vote for me to bring down our welfare spending!”
Uk government tried this a few yrs ago trying to spin the welfare part as work shy bambots then it came out that the lions share was pension pots that took up most of it with the teachers pensions being the one the media focused on