Perhaps some perspective on those filthy rich getting unfair subsidies...from a comment by a chartered accountant on Bolt's blog
"I note Health Minister Tanya Plibersek is claiming the ALP’s Health Insurance Reforms stop people earning $50K subsidising the health insurance of people earning $250K.
You might be interested to know that a person earning $50K pa pays $5,400 pa including Medicare levy. A person earning $250K pa pays $89,800 pa including Medicare levy. That’s 16.6 times more tax despite only earning 5 times as much income.
Does Tanya Plibersek seriously think people earning $250K spend 16.6 times more time in hospitals? Indeed on a related topic does she think $250K people have 16.6 times more children being educated by the Government? The suggestion that someone who has paid $89,800 in tax might at best get about $1500 back in a rebate for health insurance is some how bludging off the person paying only $5,400 is so utterly preposterous that one wonders how absurdly innumerate Plibersek is to have arrived at this conclusion."
