What a nerve!

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[Wokko]

It's almost like having Government involved leads to corruption and waste. This outcome could never be foreseen.

[stui magpie]

When a Government put subsidies in place, they rarely put in place the proper checks and balances to prevent fraud or properly consider the unintended consequences.

They become a magnet for unscrupulous people, like this little Muslim gang

[watt price tully]

The Libs cut red tape remember the Mad Misogynists Monks mantra was cutting red tape and appointed the current Treasurer to do his bidding.

The same applies to the building industry, self regulation.

Privatisation has always been a rip off for the public.

But these people are real maggots & hope they are punished big time

[stui magpie]

Not just the ones that ran the scheme, but all the women who provided details of their kids in order to claim money for childcare they didn't use.

When I said Governments, I was being non party lines. Remember Krudd's insulation scheme?

dandrews solar rebate is buggering the industry in Victoria

It's a common theme with governments of all flavours

[pietillidie]

[David]

[think positive]

Can’t believe you think it’s victimless! Just imagine the good that money could do for those that really need it?

And then you wonder why they are bringing in a cashless welfare card!

You know in Greece you can retire at 55, education is free, unemployment is huge, and the result is a huge homeless problem and the place is a dump! It’s so sad, someone has to pay for government services, there is nothing funny about ripping it off!

[stui magpie]

Government takes money from us in the form of taxes. According to my ATO tax receipt, 40% of the money they take off me goes to Welfare.

This whole day care subsidy is so people can have kids and go back to work to earn more money while taxpayers pay for someone to mind their kids. I already begrudge that as having kids is a choice and you should sort your finances out before you do, but these arsewipes are just stealing

[David]

I did say relatively, TP.

Of course I agree that ripping money out of the public spending pool is harmful. But these are small fish in comparison to multinational tax avoiders, who are basically doing the exact same thing except on a much larger scale. And they’re getting away with it.

[Pies4shaw]

There’s certainly a very uncomfortable tension between what was able to happen here and the routine willingness of petty bureaucrats to cut off income benefits to vast numbers of people who need them, for no good reason.

[stui magpie]

^

As in most things these days, the small minority who do the wrong thing stuff things up for the majority who're trying to do the right thing.

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[watt price tully]

There was another group caught in May this year doing the same thing, from appearances looked like they were from South Asian background, that is ? from India

[David]