Hi there,
There's a report in the Adelaide Advertiser that average families are $39000 better off than they were a decade ago.
Our family of a couple and a 20 year old child at university, plus cat, doesn't even earn $3900, let alone be better off by that amount. Who did they survey? Only the rich. What total rubbish.
Here's an item from that same paper today :
"S.A. Premier Jay Weatherill releases new report showing effect of Federal Budget cuts in SA and ramps up attacks on the Coalition.
"SOUTH Australia will be among the state’s hardest hit by Federal Budget cuts that threaten to cost couples with children $2780 a year, a new report finds.
Premier Jay Weatherill on Wednesday released a State Government-commissioned report on the impact of the cuts and renewed calls for their immediate reversal.
The move was met with immediate scorn from the Federal Government, which accused Mr Weatherill of wasting $90,000 of taxpayers’ money on a “partisan” report.
The study, authored by Australian Workplace Innovation and Social Resea
rch Centre executive director John Spoehr, warns of a $1.6 billion hit to the state economy over four years due to the cuts and that the burden falls most heavily on those least able to pay.
It warns 7000 jobs will be lost and couples with children will be $2780 worse off every year when the cuts have full effect in 2018. It finds single parents will be $3700 worse off.
The analysis is of the Federal Budget as delivered in May and does not take account of political wrangling in the Senate that is likely to result in the defeat of some measures.
Professor Spoehr said the loss of Family Benefit Tax Part B and other change
s to the indexation of the pension and other payments would have the biggest impacts.
Assistant Regional Development and Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs said Mr Weatherill’s “misleading campaign, full of lies” was harming relations with Canberra.
“It just seems to me that Premier Weatherill wants to blame everybody but himself for the failings of his government over 12 years,” Mr Briggs said. “Stop playing this blame game, get your house in order and work with the Federal Government on trying to deliver more infrastructure ...
“We don’t want to play this silly game of politics with taxpayers’ money.”
Premier Weatherill was forced to defend his own Budget, including huge in
creases to the Emergency Services Levy, saying he had protected those least able to pay.
He refused to say what alternative measures the Federal Government should take to fund a reversal of the cuts, but insisted the Budget’s biggest problem was a low tax take.
“It made decisions about reducing company tax, it made decisions about reducing carbon tax, it made decisions about reducing mining tax,’’ Mr Weatherill said. “It is not an expenditure problem that the Commonwealth have, it’s a revenue problem.”
Public Service Association general secretary Jan McMahon said it was clear the Federal Budget impact on low income families would be significant.
URL :http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/premier-jay-weatherill-releases-new-report-showing-effect-of-federal-budget-cuts-in-sa-and-ramps-up-attacks-on-the-coalition/story-fni6uo1m-1227083799496 "
Robby's say
As this paper is a Murdoch paper it finds fault with almost all of what this report finds and attacks the Premier as well.
If the report is correct, over the next 4 years these targetted families will lose at least $10,000 of that non existent $39000 increase from the last decade.
What do they want from people? To run a household DEFICIT each year like the Government? Unfortunately we cannot survive doing that. We would lose our house and have no possessions, no food. Homeless. Good governing FOR ALL as you vowed when you took office Rabbott.
There's a report in the Adelaide Advertiser that average families are $39000 better off than they were a decade ago.
Our family of a couple and a 20 year old child at university, plus cat, doesn't even earn $3900, let alone be better off by that amount. Who did they survey? Only the rich. What total rubbish.
Here's an item from that same paper today :
"S.A. Premier Jay Weatherill releases new report showing effect of Federal Budget cuts in SA and ramps up attacks on the Coalition.
"SOUTH Australia will be among the state’s hardest hit by Federal Budget cuts that threaten to cost couples with children $2780 a year, a new report finds.
Premier Jay Weatherill on Wednesday released a State Government-commissioned report on the impact of the cuts and renewed calls for their immediate reversal.
The move was met with immediate scorn from the Federal Government, which accused Mr Weatherill of wasting $90,000 of taxpayers’ money on a “partisan” report.
The study, authored by Australian Workplace Innovation and Social Resea
rch Centre executive director John Spoehr, warns of a $1.6 billion hit to the state economy over four years due to the cuts and that the burden falls most heavily on those least able to pay.
It warns 7000 jobs will be lost and couples with children will be $2780 worse off every year when the cuts have full effect in 2018. It finds single parents will be $3700 worse off.
The analysis is of the Federal Budget as delivered in May and does not take account of political wrangling in the Senate that is likely to result in the defeat of some measures.
Professor Spoehr said the loss of Family Benefit Tax Part B and other change
s to the indexation of the pension and other payments would have the biggest impacts.
Assistant Regional Development and Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs said Mr Weatherill’s “misleading campaign, full of lies” was harming relations with Canberra.
“It just seems to me that Premier Weatherill wants to blame everybody but himself for the failings of his government over 12 years,” Mr Briggs said. “Stop playing this blame game, get your house in order and work with the Federal Government on trying to deliver more infrastructure ...
“We don’t want to play this silly game of politics with taxpayers’ money.”
Premier Weatherill was forced to defend his own Budget, including huge in
creases to the Emergency Services Levy, saying he had protected those least able to pay.
He refused to say what alternative measures the Federal Government should take to fund a reversal of the cuts, but insisted the Budget’s biggest problem was a low tax take.
“It made decisions about reducing company tax, it made decisions about reducing carbon tax, it made decisions about reducing mining tax,’’ Mr Weatherill said. “It is not an expenditure problem that the Commonwealth have, it’s a revenue problem.”
Public Service Association general secretary Jan McMahon said it was clear the Federal Budget impact on low income families would be significant.
URL :http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/premier-jay-weatherill-releases-new-report-showing-effect-of-federal-budget-cuts-in-sa-and-ramps-up-attacks-on-the-coalition/story-fni6uo1m-1227083799496 "
Robby's say
As this paper is a Murdoch paper it finds fault with almost all of what this report finds and attacks the Premier as well.
If the report is correct, over the next 4 years these targetted families will lose at least $10,000 of that non existent $39000 increase from the last decade.
What do they want from people? To run a household DEFICIT each year like the Government? Unfortunately we cannot survive doing that. We would lose our house and have no possessions, no food. Homeless. Good governing FOR ALL as you vowed when you took office Rabbott.
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