Monday, July 25, 2005

Here's a thought. . .

So Tariana Turia has waded out of the child immunisation debate, and into the pensions one. Amusing call that many Maori, who live shorter lives, should get their pensions five years earlier.

By the same argument, Asian New Zealanders, who live the longest, should get their pensions later. So too should women.

Strangely, Mrs Turia has not made the link between Maori and total welfare expenditure. Perhaps a fairer policy, if we're going to go down the racial division of welfare money, would be to allocate to Maori in welfare expenditure, their proportion of the tax take.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fat (or, more pc-ly the vertically challanged) people also have shorter life expectancy-does it mean that we should give pension to them earlier too? Shit, New Zealand will be the ugliest nation in the world then as the rent seekers will try to get as fat as possible to get earliest pension... hehehehehe...