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Vaccine passports are nudge to achieve herd immunity
Posted : 2021-05-16 17:11 By Nicholas Goldberg
To hear some people tell it, vaccine passports are just another effort by Democrats, progressives and Satan to take away your freedom, just like when they told you to wear a mask and made you shut down your business.
In a hyperventilating Wall Street Journal op-ed about a month ago, two medical school professors lit viciously into the idea of vaccine passports, calling them, among other things, a coercive scheme to encourage vaccination.
But vaccine passports aren t coercive. And as for encouraging vaccination, would that be such a bad thing?
The Low and Middle Income Tax Offset (known as the LMITO or “lamington”) has been given yet another new lease of life.
What started in 2018 as a stop-gap until broader tax cuts were introduced, was extended because of COVID after the tax cuts were introduced in the 2020 budget and has now been extended again in 2021 to assist with the COVID recovery.
Which is odd, because, being a delayed payment (it is only paid out as tax refunds after the end of each financial year), it offers anything but real-time support.
And despite its name, it isn’t offered to Australians on very low incomes.