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in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on (lemmy.world)
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I assume "Other purposes" is govt kickbacks to mining and gas companies ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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[โ€“] Hogger85b@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tories in the UK did this and obfuscated to their agenda

They showed "pensions" but that was only public sector worker pensions then added the universal state pension to the "benefits" section to claim we had a bloated benefits budget for scroungers despite them being the party of triple lock pension (linked to greater of wages, inflation and aribitary 2%)