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DaveNa, in This bridge goes through the water and not over it, The Netherlands

Looks inefficient resourcewise.

showmewhatyougot, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

Always liked this because it helps people see to some extent where money is going.

I know the UK and Portugal do this as well. It was especially interesting in the UK during the Brexit years because you could see a tiny piece of that pie chart with EU contributions, almost saying “this is how little of our money is going to Europe”, didn’t do any good in the end but hey, still great info to have that all detailed

Risk,

the UK do this as well

They do?

Well shit, they do! Shame they don’t actually tell you about it actively - as you said, they probably don’t want most people to realise.

hello_cruel_world,

That welfare budget is a load of of shit, too. If you have a look at the actual breakdown, most goes on housing (read: private landlords) and(!) pensions.

Some crafty fucker in the dwp had the genius idea of splitting up state and civil service pensions, placing civil service pensions under the welfare group to make the welfare bill higher. Out of the welfare budget I think only 5% of that goes on the unemployed. Out of that 5% only 1% of that 5% figure goes to the long term unemployed. (Being on the dole >6months). Yet they only bang on shit the feckless and workshy…

Risk,

Do you know where I could look for the actual breakdown - I’m not sure what to search for - would it be in the budget documents?

woshang, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

Transparency

Jolan, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

I’m surprised so much money is going towards disability, what kind of stuff do they get?

hanni,

Helpers, workers, special housing, apecial Beds and equipment. Some have 24/7 care.

hanni,

Some need 24/7 care. Not sure what people in australia are getting.

Jolan,

Yeah that makes sense I guess, I just wasn’t expecting it to be so much. But that’s good that there’s such a good support structure available.

billstickers,
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What @hanni said. But they also split out the unemployment payment as the disability support payment. So it’s all the disabled pension too.

t0lo,

Australian support services can be quite broad. I know a lot of people with minor or self diagnosed issues that receive disability payments

crossover,

My guess is this is mostly support payments for people who are unable to work.

birbboidaseed,

There is a whole department dedicated to the assessment and allocation of funding for the disabled under 65 y.o. If you’re over 65 then it became the aged pension.

Silviecat44, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

I love that we have this

Hogger85b, (edited ) in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

Tories in the UK did this and obfuscated to their agenda

They showed "pensions" but that was only public sector worker pensions then added the universal state pension to the "benefits" section to claim we had a bloated benefits budget for scroungers despite them being the party of triple lock pension (linked to greater of wages, inflation and aribitary 2%)

30isthenew29, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

Mildly interesting.

Chadsmo, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

I wish we had this in Canada.

livus,
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I wish we had it in New Zealand too. I get tired of people's hallucinations about tax.

wolre, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

I think this is a pretty good idea, actually. While this kind of information is available in most western places, people usually can’t be bothered to look it up and then have very weird ideas about what their taxes are probably spent on. This would at least help clear some things up.

Etterra, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

It must be so nice to see such a small bar for your defense spending.

stappern,

small? its just as much as education!

w2qw,

This is just federal spending. Most educational spending is at the state level.

delta,

I don’t know much but I don’t think Australia works that way? Do they have “states” or some equivalent? Curiously asking.

w2qw,

Yeah we have 6 states. Australia is a federation like the US. There’s no equivalent to this form because we don’t have any state income taxes.

delta,

Ahh I see. Interesting! Thank you for clarifying.

Agent641,

Just wait til we buy the govt some nuc subs in the coming years, then that bar gonna be a long boi

Snipe_AT,
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what’s your guess as to the percentage of US military spending compared to its tax revenue?

Kecessa,

It’s still 8.6%, that’s quite a lot actually…

Ilovethebomb,

Except we kinda do need our military, especially with how cunty some point Australia’s neighbours can be.

odium,

Yeah, don’t trust them kiwis.

kboy101222,

Should just nuke them now and get it over with honestly

CurlyWurlies4All,
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We all know NZ is planning something

MaungaHikoi,

The West Island is welcome to join Aotearoa any time they like 😂

dtxer,

Thats why they lost the Emu war…

jscummy,

See those emus try the same shit in the states and see how that goes

EatMyDick,

Yeah because that shit is totally not needed. AU and EU need to step up their shit. Iran and China sure are.

Quatity_Control,

Except we don’t want to be the USA of the Asia pacific region.

EatMyDick,

You people live in a fantasy world where physical threats do not exist. The US is leading the way protecting Asia and Europe. The entire balkins would be under RU is it wasn’t for that spending.

The spending it’s needed and it’s EU/Asia doesn’t step up it’s game they’ll ultimately be a second tier power to the United States perpetually. Their call I guess 🤷‍♂️.

bigdog_00,

I mean sadly you’re right - people like to hate on our defense spending in the US, but who does the world look towards when Russia invades Ukraine? It sucks that it needs to be this way, but if we don’t have a strong deterrent to other countries then we’re just asking for problems. Look at how aggressive China and Russia have gotten recently, with China inching closer to an invasion of Taiwan. Who’s going to be laughing when the US is there to help Taiwan?

Skellybones,
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Also isn’t usa paying for other countrys military not sure if this is true

Quatity_Control,

We know more about geo politics in the region than you do. And your drastic oversimplification does not actually result in a reasonable and coherent plan for peace in the Asia pacific region. Again I’ll say, your presence and commentary in this case is misinformed and incorrect.

EatMyDick,

👌

KuroJ,

I’m not sure why your being downvoted, but it’s true. Allied countries of the U.S. do not have to put much towards their military budget do to being able to rely on the U.S.

The U.S. has a strong military presence in the Indo-pacific region and if they didn’t, surely some adversaries would have already been having their way.

It’s unfortunate it comes to this but that’s just the facts.

Version,

People think big military = war, while in fact it‘s the opposite.

Chiron17, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

So what they do is take your tax and apportion it over by the Expense and Net Captial Investment Statement in Budget Paper 1 (usually Statement 6).

It’s dead simple to do and really helps communicate where your money is going in general terms.

It was a Joe Hockey initiative.

GroteStreet,

Joe “windmills are utterly offensive” Hockey

As much as I dislike the man, credit where credit is due, I guess. Then again, it was probably the idea of some mid-level employee whose name will be lost in history.

Longmactoppedup,

I thought I read that his original intent was for the breakdown to be less detailed so as to obfuscate the true nature of welfare payments. Then some cheeky ATO staff delivered the more detailed version.

WhiteHawk, in This bridge goes through the water and not over it, The Netherlands

It’s all water besides the bridge now

twistedtxb, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on
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That’s slightly more than mildly interesting

Poot, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on
@Poot@sh.itjust.works avatar

In the US that would be a list of Congressmen and the Billionaires who own them.

dustojnikhummer,

I think US would have a slightly smaller problem of NOT KNOWING WHERE THE FUCKING CASH IS

c0mbatbag3l,
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Can’t be out of money if you don’t know where the money is!

Trolled, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

lol this isn’t actually true, I know because I live in aus and I have never seen anything like this

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