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not sure who,you targeted your post at,
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It wasn't targeted at you rehctub.

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but the rich go without plenty to subsidize the poor
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Hmm, not sure how to respond to that comment. How do the rich go without to subsidize the poor? I mean what are they missing that the poor have taken from them?

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Now if a person chooses to drink, smoke, gamble, or all of the above, then they can afford solar panels, they just choose to spend thier money elsewhere.
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Way to stereo type everyone who can't afford 10 grand + for solar panels on their roof, spoken like a true plutocrat. What makes you think everyone who can't afford solar panels, drinks, smokes and gambles?

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Remember, we are all presented with an equal opportunity to fail, so the poor should not blame others thier position.
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That's true, but not everyone who fails did so because of their own incompetence. I notice that most of your posts are whinging about shutting down your own business because the rules are getting tougher. Have you ever thought that perhaps people like you have already experienced what you are experiencing and have already given up? Some of the ones I know have re-educated 3 times now, only to be shafted by the system over and over again. Now they're not quite poor, but certainly can't afford the cost of removing their ever increasing electricity bill completely by putting solar panels on their houses!

What about all the people that live in apartments, or self funded pensioners who have moved into retirement villages, how are they suppose to get solar panels?

It's not as black and white as you'd like it to be, rehctub.

Fact is the government have created a scheme to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich but not only that, have created a system by where the more rich that receive their subsidy the more the poor are finding it difficult to keep up with the scam. All on a lie!

Highrise apartments can have solar. They do not have to be installed on your roof. These panels can be in a paddock with thousands of other panels The amount of panels you provide as a group, are calculated as wattage in credit. All power is fed into the grid. Small towns are installing solar and wind as a collective group, and sharing benefits among participants. No one is saying it has to be on your roof.

Vegemite !!

SD