if you wisely invested that $4.70...over 4 fortnights you can get a top line burger from mc Donalds (but no drink)....surely thats something to be grateful for
 
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I feel the same way. Pensioners are always ignored when it comes to the distribution of money to us. Really, $1.75, what a joke. You try living on an Age Pension Pollies.
 
Unless we all pay more tax, there is only so much money to go around. The cost of living has also affected government costs.
They have already put up our taxes with the GST. According to a very senior public servant I knew, when the GST was first introduced, they had no idea how much revenue they would get. When that first payment came in, they almost fell over, there was just so much money. But it didn't take them long to work out how to spend it. Most Federal public servants in Canberra are on 6 figure salaries now, and they really don't care what the people who actually built the country get to live on.
 

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