@BenPhillips_ANU By design HILDA is largely surveying the same households over time. The expectation would be that households become wealthier over time - this shows that's not happening.
@JasonWilde108 Sea levels rose by less than a centimeter a year for thousands of years. They would have barely noticed the change in their lifetime much less remember how it had been generations before. Post hoc mythologising
@ChaosAngelMUFC@DocPriyamMD You forgot to mention that the MRNA vaccines have also been a leading cause of baseless conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine nonsense
@bowtiedstocks Including the PPR in the asset test wouldn't encourage people to downsize since any realised cash would still be counted in the test so there's no the point.
Peoples welfare might increase as they relocate to better sized housing but not a single additional house will be built
@TMFScottP Getting the importation and distribution organisational structures in place was the hard bit. Leveraging that for all manner of black-market goods is going to be easy money. Eradicating it is now going to be hugely expensive but of course that's a cost to the States, not Federal