Lest us not forget:Unless you're dead or overseas you have a...

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    Lest us not forget:

    Unless you're dead or overseas you have a better chance with Rudd otherwise a pineapple is coming up everyones rear to pay for his madness:


    Grateful dead getting Rudd's $900 bonus
    28/May/2009
    By Steve Lewis, The Daily Telegraph

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    THE Rudd Government has wasted $40 million by paying the $900 tax bonus to 16,000 dead people and 27,000 expats living overseas.

    The revelations will rock the Government's efforts to sell its $42 billion stimulus package as a nation-building scheme.

    And the Australian Tax Office said the level of payments to the dead is likely to go beyond the $14 million so far issued to deceased estates, The Daily Telegraph reports.

    The $40 million in wasted payments was revealed by the tax office in confidential documents that confirmed prisoners received the $900 payment.

    As well, more than $11 million was spent on "marketing" the cash splash - which has seen about $8 billion paid to 8.7 million people.

    Despite racking up more than $300 billion in debt, the Government is sending about $25 million in bonus payments to people living overseas.

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