Paltry?

 The headline:

Paltry $970,000 saved as Govt freezes incomes of 3000 families

 

 The Government (read "The poor bloody taxpayer") pays lazy bastards to just work 20 hours per week - or less.

 They use tax credits for this payment and it affects few people. 2943 families according to the linked story.

The Government has decided not to increase the limit of this credit this year.

The story appears in the NZH and is written by an obviously barely literate slime using the name  Thomas Coughlan 

Coughlan describes the amount the taxpayer saves as "paltry".

 Now, to me, $970,000 is a reasonable saving. A few Government savings of this type and maybe even old white men might qualify for medical procedures currently limited to racists. Hernia operations being the most pressing for yours truly.

But I'm always willing to be shown the error of my ways and be corrected. This time the means suggests itself.

Mr Coughlan should pay me (out of his own pocket) $970,000.00 and I can find out for myself just how paltry it is.