Indy, I have never given it a thought, but your right.
The aged pension IS payed for by us through taxes.
Where-as Superannuation is paid for by the employer.
What a scam?
It only strengthens my point of many years, and that is; The govt has slowly and systematically been passing more and more costs back onto the people, when in the past those same costs were covered by our taxes.
So all the billions of dollars they have accumulated and at the same time passed those same costs onto us, where are all these billions?
All I can think of is all these damn pathetic hangers on and welfare cheats, and after all that they keep finding new ways to steal even more money off us to give to other thieves, some of which are the govt and their mates.
These are the kind of things I complain about, but I'm a lone voice, apart from a few here on OLO, it appears that we are a country of entitled opportunists.
If one stops and thinks about it, the govt, over the years has diverted many costs from the govt and directly back onto the people, but have done nothing to lesson our original burden, either by lowering taxes and charges commensurate with the amounts they passed back onto us or any other form of financial relief.
In fact, the opposite has been the case.
Speaking of which,just one case in point.
Many years ago, here in WA, the govt added a 25$ fee to our vehicle registrations, which was supposed to run for a few years to recover the millions stolen/lost by a failed govt con job called WA Inc.
That fee was never removed.
This is only one example, there are so many more.
And some of you wonder why I am so pissed off with everyone and everything!

individual,

Thanks for those examples of what you call a 'social decision'.

I can see you are not a sociologist.

I can see you are not a sociologist.
Mr Opinion,
Thanks, that's the best News I've heard in years !

in WA, the govt added a 25$ fee to our vehicle registrations,
ALTRAV,
Talking to WA bloke only a couple of weeks back, I asked him about the rego on his 4 tonne camper-truck. He said just under $800. In Qld the same vehicle is $2000 Rego.

Indy, you do kid yourself into believing the Aged Pension is not welfare. You are motivated by your desire to bucket on welfare recipients, but at the same time excluding yourself, as you don't want to admit like so many others you are a government welfare titty swinger, all rather hypocritical on your part! If you paid tax sometime in the past, all well and good, which I don't know if you did or you didn't, the government at the time used a portion of that money to pay a means tested Aged Pension. The government of today is doing the exact same thing for you, as you were unable to provide adequately in your working life for your retirement, you are receiving what is called the welfare safety net. A social decision as you would put it.

Il Duce, if you want to back Indy up, so be it, but you don't have to make things up to do it; "The aged pension IS payed for by us through taxes. Where-as Superannuation is paid for by the employer."

Yesterdays taxes paid yesterdays pensions, today's taxes pay today's pensions. Compulsory superannuation was achieved by workers forgoing pay increases. There was no sudden generosity from the employers. How you like to twist things, in 1991 the contribution from workers was 3% of their wage, it has progressively increased to 9.5% today.

individual,

The bad thing about that is that it proves you don't know anything.