Aidan - "NDIS was designed to be largely self funding, enabling many people to work when they would otherwise be unable to. "

There is no way it could self fund itself. People were conned into believing that by Dillard.

Even a lot of workers with no disabilities are still on some form of welfare, so to think someone with a disability will be otherwise is crazy.

So much for self funding.

Budget 2017: A tax rate of 49.5 per cent: What would it mean for Australia?

A permanent tax rate of almost 50 per cent for the highest-earning Australians is on the cards as the government looks to negotiate with Labor and the Senate crossbench to fully fund the $22 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Labor's federal budget reply, released on Thursday, would see people earning more than $180,000 permanently face a 49.5 per cent tax rate, including the 0.5 per cent increase in the Medicare levy announced by the Turnbull government and make permanent a 2 per cent "temporary budget repair levy" that the Coalition is determined to expire on June 30.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/budget-2017-a-tax-rate-of-495-per-cent-what-it-would-mean-for-australia-20170512-gw3881.html

Maybe it is time to admit it is a failed scheme and drop it.

Gillard was a lot of things, none of them good for Ozzies, but she was no dummy.

The NDIS & Gonski were both time bombs, left by her when she knew she was finished. They were designed to make it impossible for anyone who followed her to design a good budget, & to make sure all of us were punished for not liking her. Even the fools who did then, & still do like her, are paying like the rest of us.

Rudd was just incompetent, & stupid, he hurt us by accident. Gillard was nasty & vindictive, & was out to make us pay long after she had gone. In that she has been very successful.

If Abbott had the guts to do what he knew needed to be done, we might have got out of the trap she laid, but he was foolish enough to try to be liked. With a total gutless wonder like Turnbull who has no idea, she got the perfect patsy to perpetuate her malevolent scheme.

Hasbeen

Excellent summing up.

"What this means is that some indigenous person or refugee who is unable to work, has never worked
and has never paid into the taxation pool is entitled to NDIS support (an electric mobility scooter or mechanical bed etc)"

Thanks Chris, there for a moment I thought good white folk might be up to no good. I'm so glad its only Darkies and Boaties that are getting what they don't deserve!
Maybe those half drowned gay rats you tossed into the Parramatta River (you did say you did that as a young copper) can now get themselves onto the NDIS, what do you think?

"some poor
bugger who has worked all his life,supported his community and family and paid his share of taxes only to fall on hard times." Good white folk I hope.

Aidan, "NDIS has largely been designed to be self funding" - This is the new Orwellian, PC speech, Pollie talk type group of words. It is why the Australian Conservative Party is gaining momentum. It is talking in lies and riddles. I think Australians have had enough. Call it for what it is. Sure is Age Discrimination but.