Coasts at the coalface for Federal budget hits
31 May 2014
DEVONPORT, TASMANIA - But Devonport businessman John White said there would be enough jobs for everyone looking for a position if the State Government was mature and cut back on departments that consumed resources but did not generate any income.
"Health and education should be the state's prime focus. These things generate productivity and that is where GST funds needs to go" Mr White said.
He said the Federal Government could then help those who found themselves out of a job and needed a hand until they were working again.
Mr White, who employs 140 people in Tasmania through his business Delta Hydraulics, said parents needed to realise adult children were their responsibility, not the taxpayers"
"Too much family responsibility has been abrogated to the Federal Government" he said.
"Kids are leaving school and picking up the dole straight away. It is the parents' job to bring children up from infancy to full independence."
