What’s with the finger pointing at pensioners and the sick as though they’re solely to blame for the supposed budget emergency we’re in?
Treasurer Joe Hockey makes some valid points about the need to raise the pension age and why government services can no longer be free.
However, it all seems disingenuous when you look at some of the benefits he continues to support for people not exactly doing it tough, such as the Medicare rebate for high-income earners; mining industry fuel subsidies worth $2 billion a year; negative gearing and scrapping Labor’s fringe benefit tax on leasing cars.
Meanwhile, the Abbott government wants to scrap the mining tax and refuses to raise taxes on high-income earners, leaving the sick and those approaching retirement to feel like they’re a burden on the country.
