Captain Nemo wrote on Feb 10
th, 2019 at 10:43am:
Tim Wilson has mishandled this whole inquiry ... however, the rip-off of on average $5,000 annually from self-funded retirees is still a big issue.
It does hurt those at the low income end the hardest.
It's actually the type of policy that should be anathema to the true Labor ethos because it does clobber the ones at the low end along with the really wealthy ones.
Just shows how low Labor has sunk in its grab for cash.
The policy stinks and it could still blow up in Shorten's and Bowen's faces.
You've been listening too much to the government's lying propaganda.
Why aren't you complaining as loudly and vociferously about the cuts that the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government made to the aged pension after Abbott lied through his teeth on national TV to promise "no cuts to pensions"?
Some of their cuts, both implemented and attempted:
* Direct cuts to the pension
* Increasing pension age to 70
* Cutting pension indexation
* Deeming interest rates significantly higher than market interest rates, forcing pensioners to spend their savings
* Cutting pensions for pensioners who travel overseas
* Cutting pensioner concessions
* Changing the assets test to cut the pension to 370,000 part pensioners
* Axing the energy supplement
They've been going after aged pensioners long and hard for the whole time they've been in office. And you actually
believe them?