Australia Will Now Fine Parents Twice a Month If They Don’t Vaccinate Their Kids

[Swordsmyth]

Australia’s “No Jab, No Pay” policy just got a little stronger, or at least more insistent. Under the previous policy, parents who did not keep their children up to date on vaccinations would miss out on a one-time, end-of-the-year tax benefit called Family Tax Benefit Part A, valued at AU$737. Under the updated policy, those same parents will instead lose AU$28 every two weeks while their child is not up to date.

Australia’s Minister for Social Services, Dan Tehan, said in a statement:

Immunization is the safest way to protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases. Parents who don’t immunize their children are putting their own kids at risk as well as the children of other people.”

The expanded No Jab, No Pay policy went into effect on July 1, 2018.
While parents will miss out on approximately the same amount of money in the end, the updated policy serves as a more “constant reminder” that the government of Australia wants all children vaccinated, according to Tehan.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ate-their-kids

[AngryCanadian]

Thank goodness i dont live there in that Fascist state.

[Voluntarist]

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[Swordsmyth]

It's not a fine - it's the removal of a tax break. It's only a fine in the same sense that Trumps limitation of the deductibility of state income taxes and property taxes is a fine. If you don't vax your kids there's no fine to be paid - you just lose out on an incentive payment the government is dishing out.

It is a fine, all they have to do is end the tax break and the families will still have to pay.

[timosman]

It's not a fine - it's the removal of a tax break. It's only a fine in the same sense that Trumps limitation of the deductibility of state income taxes and property taxes is a fine. If you don't vax your kids there's no fine to be paid - you just lose out on an incentive payment the government is dishing out.

In that case I guess it's OK.

[Voluntarist]

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[Voluntarist]

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[Swordsmyth]

Government moves to toughen 'no jab, no pay' policy


D'ya understand now?

Unless the people are not paying taxes or are net recipients of government money then it is still a fine to take more of their money, it will probably be salami sliced farther and farther until it is a large outright fine that results in jail time if not paid.

[Swordsmyth]

Put it this way - if you're not receiving welfare, it doesn't impact you at all.

Tax breaks are welfare now?

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8428596.html

Parents will now lose A$28 (£16) a fortnight from their tax benefits for each child not up to date with their immunisations.

Previously, parents whose children were not up to date with vaccinations would lose an end of year payment to their family tax benefit, worth A$737.

The new fortnightly sanction will see parents lose out on roughly the same amount but is said to serve as a more “constant reminder”.

Basically spreading out what was previously not given to them into bi- weekly instead of annual withholding of the tax break.