Wait have we got 3 million beneficiaries now? That would explain why people keep getting so noisily unhappy about them.

If you add the size of the workforce, plus beneficiaries including super annuitants you get about 3 million - unless you can't count?

Deborah, you are correct that beneficiary income is net - but Labour have said they will be increasing beneficiary payments by $10 to match the increase in workers net pay after the tax cut takes effect.

Keith conveniently missed this.

Keith Ng - you conveniently forget that Labour have stated that the $5000 tax free applies to all beneficiaries as well.

If you can't even get that one right, I doubt the validity of any of your other arguments also.

Um, Steve Barnes - when people become unemployed, they get a new job - they don't just give up and spend the rest of their lives on the dole. In your world, is everyone a wet blanket?

And your argument is so horrendously weak, that you have to resort to comparing National to the Nazis? Lol - go and lookup Godwin's Law on wikipedia sometime....