As a taxpayer I have no problem paying $20,000 a year for someone who has worked 40 years and paid tax.

I do have a problem paying  ex-prime ministers $800,000 a year when Kevin Rudd’s wife has just sold her business for $220million.

I’m sure she will give Kevin something to live on without taxpayers paying for them. Kevin gets the equivalent of paying 40 pensioners. 

Bob Hawke and Paul Keating are both multimillionaires and still we keep paying for them (about $700,000 a year).

So leave the poor old pensioner alone Joe and look to the filthy rich people.