One wonders what make of calculator Labour Party Leader Andrew Little used to work it out that people on the dole will be better off working on some time-wasting, soul-destroying job set by a Government department on the minimum wage? Roughly the minimum wage is $15.25 an hour take the tax off that and you have $439.57. Now all that will be spent because no one can live and save on that amount of money so GST leaves a single person with a cash amount better off than on the dole by $84.42. Now the single dole is $355.16 in the hand. Being on the dole means no absolute daily spending on petrol and lunches etc. So basically there is no bloody difference in the two amounts. The increased cost to the Government will only be the $84.42 difference. And Andy wants to run the country. God save us!

A Bourne, Bethlehem.