NDIS Cuts, Hell Yeah! Now We Can Get Like 3 More Of These Things

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The government has wowed the nation this week, by finally making a big call to balance out the budget bottom line.

Not taxing the mining giants ripping off our natural resources, or ending the ongoing property investor rorts of Capital Gains Tax Concessions and Negative gearing - but by slashing the budget for those bludgers on the NDIS.

After cleverly backgrounding the media and setting up a perfect narrative about the NDIS being gouged by rort merchants over the last couple of years, Health Minister Mark Butler has announced a major overhaul, designed to save the government $35 billion by the end of the decade.

Those savings will be roughly the equivalent of cutting the something like Negative Gearing, with property investors to be carried by people cut from the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The changes will result in an estimated 160,000 recipients being cut from the scheme.

The cuts will also allow us to buy another beep beep machine or two, that should arrive by 2050 and be completely fucking useless should China want to fuck us up anyway.

While everyone acknowledges there are areas of the NDIS that can be tidied up and refined to ensure that the money is going to people who need it the most, the government has decided to cleverly play turning the NDIS into a bloated scheme being rorted by BROWN PEOPLE instead of just rolling up the sleeves and doing some work.

Failing to do anything about the privatisation of growing numbers of the NDIS and bunting the fallout onto the states, the government is hoping the budget appeals to the masses at the expense of the vulnerable - without of course referencing any of the comparative budget spends like defence and property investor welfare.

More to come.