Buf-Phoon loitering with intent Lifetime Members 13,318 Member For: 21y 5m 3d Gender: Male Location: Zombie Birdhouse Posted 04/04/15 03:57 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 03:57 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 10m 28d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 04/04/15 05:54 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 05:54 AM (edited) It should be illegal for a dole recipient to use my tax dollars to buy alcohol, smokes, or play the pokies/gamble.I agree with that, but can't see the government heading down that route.The amount of tax they get back from those items is friggin huge.I wouldn't be surprised if >30% of the money handed out on the pension ends up back in the governments pocket under another column, boosting their bottom line.60% of the price of a pack of smokes, $16 from every slab of beer (almost 50% of the price of spirits), 50-60% on pokies revenue etcImagine a pensioner spending $300/week on those things - $150 on smokes (pack a day?), $80 on 2 slabs (not unusual) and $70 on the pokies (easily possible)From the $300 they got in pensions, $120 (smokes) $40 (beer) and $35 (pokies) means almost $200 filtered straight back into to the coffers that gave out the $300 - albeit through a different column on the chart of accounts.Hell - if they wanted to show a reduction in cost of dole bludgers it'd be a lot easier to hand them out a carton of smokes and 2 slabs a week, charging the public/taxpayers at tax/duty exempt prices.Instead of that $300/week we see on the books it would only be $100/week the dole bludger is costing us. It would hurt the bottom line though for government revenue - no party would accept that.Those dole bludgers on the pension are a lot more profitable to the government than the poor sod using his pension to pay bills, buy food and clothe his kids and send them to school with a packed lunch - all the government gets back from them is a measley 10% on their spending that isn't GST free. Maybe less than $25 bucks of that $300ipso facto: the real burden on the Aussie economy is the people on pension trying to do the right thing, and not the dole bludgers Edited 04/04/15 05:59 AM by Rab 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkets is Drunk? Too heavy needs boost Member 5,929 Member For: 11y 5m 17d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 04/04/15 06:00 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 06:00 AM I think the food stamps and travel passes and other options they were looking at so the karnts just dont spend it all on piss and smokes was a good option. Farkem. If they are just to lazy, have no interest to work why should they get the luxurys we get by working. Pensioners. that's a different story. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber Carnage on the Garage Floor Donating Members 3,994 Member For: 14y 8m 11d Gender: Male Location: Gold Coast Posted 04/04/15 06:12 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 06:12 AM You'd like to think it's becoming more of a minority but...there are still generational dole bludgers. These are the ones that really need to be weeded out in my opinion. Children that have never known their parents to work, so they do the same. Clean that sh*t up, then you can deny me a pension. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeGe6 Donating Members 1,978 Member For: 12y 6m 15d Gender: Male Location: Perth, SOR Posted 04/04/15 06:54 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 06:54 AM Poof across the the road asking me to turn down the music at 1 in the afternoon.Yeah right mate sure thing, would you like to choose the music also.........not!Mate, it a wireless speaker all of 5 watts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 5m 22d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 04/04/15 08:46 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 08:46 AM Call me unreasonable. But if I can clearly hear your music inside my house with the doors closed then it's too loud and I would probably ask you to turn it down also.But I'm also deaf.. so by the time I can hear your music it's way too freaking loud.PS. I stopped asking and now I just pull fuses out of your fuse box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennox Member 2,586 Member For: 11y 10m 27d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 04/04/15 09:07 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 09:07 AM What if someone was inside on a dialysis machine and died because you pulled the fuse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 22d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 04/04/15 09:09 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 09:09 AM I once had a neighbour ask me to turn my engine off in my driveway that I was flushing a cooling system on At that time I had 4 cars 8 mororbikes 2 lawnmowers 1 wiper snipper 1 blower vac They sounded beautiful all humming away for over an hour, I think my XR8 was headers only at the time also as the exhaust was removed for a "de" cat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Jeturbo Bob the Freaking Builder Donating Members 10,813 Member For: 15y 4m 9d Gender: Female Location: SA Posted 04/04/15 09:10 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 09:10 AM Well in my old house ... I used to hate neighbour making noise of any kind Music especially Annoying as hell New house Nice area Beautiful view Gorgeous house ..... Teenage neighbour and an alco mum (not in a bad way lol) Still don't mind any mind any noise at all frankly I'd consider it good they were having fun Same as our other side neighbours Good on em for having fun But saying that they do it ... Well I can count it on one hand.... Or less... So I possibly haven't seen it yet And the last time the neighbours in the old area had a party I was calling the popo coz bikies were smashing the windows of the house across the road No surprise I don't mind the music now bahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeGe6 Donating Members 1,978 Member For: 12y 6m 15d Gender: Male Location: Perth, SOR Posted 04/04/15 09:44 AM Share Posted 04/04/15 09:44 AM Call me unreasonable. But if I can clearly hear your music inside my house with the doors closed then it's too loud and I would probably ask you to turn it down also.But I'm also deaf.. so by the time I can hear your music it's way too freaking loud.PS. I stopped asking and now I just pull fuses out of your fuse box.I'd agree, but he was sitting outside.Any way got the whipper snipper out and did full on session in the front yard. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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