• A wise and frugal government which leaves men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson

Welfare state out of control

Posted by Robert P. Landis on 22nd March 2011 11:16pm

Some alarming statistics put forth on 2GB yesterday. Centrelink pays out 84 billion dollars of tax-payers money per year. It employs 27 thousand people to administer those payments. Of course, the wages of those employees are also payed by the tax-payer.

On top of the outright theft, last year about 3500 people were prosecuted for fraud.