Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours

Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by xxpor on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:28PM (#28373176)

> Keep in mind it’s different to America, you get paid decent money from the state to stay at home.

I wish this meme would die. People in the US got paid decent money too.

The federal gov spent $3 trillion more on transfer payments in Q1 2021 than it did in Q4 2019. This is more than a doubling. That's nearly $17,000 for every human in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B087RC1Q027SBEA

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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by SamoyedFurFluff on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:32PM (#28373231)

How can that be possible when we only had like a few hundred in checks, or some few hundred in additional unemployment for people who were unemployed?

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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by abeyer on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:26PM (#28373905)

Not sure if you're being intentionally hyperbolic...

But stimulus checks alone (ie free money for everyone under the income threshold of $75k) were over $3000 per person.

Additional unemployment was hundreds of dollars _per week_, on top of the standing unemployment benefits.

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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by mlavin on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:40PM (#28373341)

There are far more government social programs than unenployment benefits and stimulus checks.

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