Cypher@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I see no evidence backed by actual science that allowing NDIS funded access to sex services improves outcomes for the community.
And I don’t just mean the disabled community but broader society, which is paying for the NDIS.
If this is about funding making a subset of people feel good and not about actual outcomes then I might as well ask for taxpayers to fund my holidays.
Making people feel good is an actual outcome. In fact, it’s the only actual outcome.
Who cares about quarterly profits, and budget savings, and a strong economy, and anything else, if it doesn’t make people feel good? Our laws and our economy should be designed with the intention of having a society of people who are happy. If the system isn’t designed to increase happiness, then everything it accomplishes is pointless.
Everyone else who pays taxes towards a program like the NDIS is giving up a little of their own quality of life.
Hookers shouldn’t be getting NDIS funds paid to them when there are still people going without and this is part of balancing the budget to ensure the NDIS is sustainable.
Everyone else who pays taxes towards a program like the NDIS is giving up a little of their own quality of life.
This is such a myth. Look at how much you are taxed each year and then take out the percentage that is funding the NDIS. It will be fuck all, nowhere near enough to affect your quality of life.
More of my tax is going to the NDIS than to Medicare.
I would rather funds be spent on Medicare than hookers but you do you.
Oh bullshit.
You don’t apply this to aged care. You don’t apply this to military funsing. You don’t aplly this to schooling - i’ve no kids and am menopausal so why should i give a shit about giving up parts of myyyyy quality of life for your kids???
Well i do because i’m not a fucking sociopath
Well that’s a lot of false equivalence going on, good luck with that.
Just tax billionaires more. It’s not that hard. Australia doesn’t have a budget problem, it has a not taxing billionaires problem. There’s no point trying to save money by taking shit away from disabled poor people. That’s pinching pennies while burning hundred bills.
Every government that has tried to tax billionaires more has been voted out.
No government is going to win an election when smear campaigns can truthfully say the government is paying for hookers.
Welcome to reality.
Also acknowledges the fact that those at the bottom of this awful economic hierarchy miss out on some of the things that “regular” people take for granted. You know, the basic enjoyments that make life bearable so we don’t off ourselves. Everyone should consider themselves one accident away from being destitute if they don’t have family wealth. Then consider what your life could be like in that scenario. A car crash happens, and then you could spend the rest of your life never touching skin with another person.
So you don’t think there should be any disability funding?
Ah we found the Ayn Rand follower
Let’s scrape all social benefits that have no benefit for every single person capitalists, things were better when industrialists worked kids starting age 7 60h week. If they want to go to school they have to earn it.
/s
Seems federated comments are several days behind.
Anyway that’s a swing and a miss, that stupid bitch died alone and taking social security payments.
I support Unions and workers.
Biological imperatives are a thing.
It also has a significant emotional dimension, which I think goes undiscussed too often. And ties in with feelings of self worth.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
disabled people have sexual needs as well jsyk. You may not like it, but they do.
Cypher@aussie.zone 1 year ago
And I have a need for some rest and relaxation from the daily grind. I would rather spend my money on myself than on hookers for someone else.
Weird I know.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That tax money is gone regardless. Denying people comfort won’t give it back to you.
Cypher@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Taxes can be lowered if the government isn’t wasting money.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m sorry that you have to pay 100% of your income in taxes just for some dude to get a blow job every other year so he doesn’t kill himself.
That sucks fam.
Cypher@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It’s alright, the government agrees with me.
No more blowjobs on NDIS dollars.
Guess your strawman will be offing itself soon.
goodthanks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For many people being disabled is a daily grind. Add poverty to that. They don’t get a holiday from it.