Comments on: Labour Promises Universal Student Allowances http://pacificempire.org.nz/2008/10/13/labour-promises-universal-student-allowances/ Sun, 13 May 2012 18:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Luke H http://pacificempire.org.nz/2008/10/13/labour-promises-universal-student-allowances/comment-page-1/#comment-67904 Luke H Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:25:52 +0000 http://pacificempire.org.nz/2008/10/13/labour-promises-universal-student-allowances/#comment-67904 <i>"a monthly, cash out of pocket stipend to students"</i> Exactly. Its a weekly cash injection of $170-$190 NZ dollars ($90-$100 US dollars) - not really enough to live on, but pretty close. The current rules state you can only get it if your parents earn less than $50,000 a year, ie, its only for poor families. Support for the poor, right? Sounds fair enough, if you believe in socialism. But Labour (socialists) are proposing giving this handout to ALL students - even the ones whose parents are millionares and pay for them to live in a flash new inner city apartment. Handouts for the rich and middle class! <i>"This isn’t a tax cut or a tax credit or a tax refund"</i> - no - it's a BRIBE! “a monthly, cash out of pocket stipend to students”

Exactly. Its a weekly cash injection of $170-$190 NZ dollars ($90-$100 US dollars) – not really enough to live on, but pretty close. The current rules state you can only get it if your parents earn less than $50,000 a year, ie, its only for poor families. Support for the poor, right? Sounds fair enough, if you believe in socialism.

But Labour (socialists) are proposing giving this handout to ALL students – even the ones whose parents are millionares and pay for them to live in a flash new inner city apartment. Handouts for the rich and middle class!

“This isn’t a tax cut or a tax credit or a tax refund” – no – it’s a BRIBE!

]]> By: Jay@Soob http://pacificempire.org.nz/2008/10/13/labour-promises-universal-student-allowances/comment-page-1/#comment-67903 Jay@Soob Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:21:59 +0000 http://pacificempire.org.nz/2008/10/13/labour-promises-universal-student-allowances/#comment-67903 Lol. Are you f*****g kidding me?! Sorry. Clarify this a bit for me if you would. This isn't a tax cut or a tax credit or a tax refund but what a monthly, cash out of pocket stipend to students? One that, by 2012, won't be reliant at all on financial "need" basis? And this bit: "Most of these students would receive no allowance under the current rules and need to borrow, receive help from their parents or work part-time, to make ends meet." Oh the horrors! Lol. Are you f*****g kidding me?!
Sorry. Clarify this a bit for me if you would. This isn’t a tax cut or a tax credit or a tax refund but what a monthly, cash out of pocket stipend to students? One that, by 2012, won’t be reliant at all on financial “need” basis?
And this bit:
“Most of these students would receive no allowance under the current rules and need to borrow, receive help from their parents or work part-time, to make ends meet.”

Oh the horrors!

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