Oh dear, yet another person who has an opinion about how the tax dollars should be spent, and so-called beneficiaries are yet again in the firing line as the ones sucking money out of the system undeservingly.

Let's focus on some other subjects to see where our dollars go, like keeping terminally ill patients alive, or allowing newborn babies to live who are so gravely sick they need help for the rest of their natural days, the criminals that will never be reformed sucking the tax dollar.

In fact, we bring back from overseas just so we can lock them up.

Maybe look at those bad drivers who clock up tickets and don't pay them. Donations given by our government to a small Pacific islands or paying to keep a seat at the United Nations, flash cars for MPs and travel allowances.

There are a lot of issues about taxes and none of them are fair to everyone, but one thing's for sure - if you get rid of the welfare state you'll surly open this country up to more serious crimes, slums, homeless people.

The vulnerable, in fact, push us back to the third world. How about sorting some of the major issues first before going down the road of wanton destruction.

Are we so selfish in one way, yet so stubborn in others? We have a greedy ignorant society that has seen caring for others sick some people to the point of nastiness.

After saying the above, I do think that not everybody should be entitled to the benefit, but you cannot put everybody in the same category. So please stop winging about dole-bludgers until you have thought of a solution to a long list of stupid spending of the New Zealand tax dollars.

R Stewart, Te Puke.