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7 hours ago, steven100 said:
Victorian's are not permitted to cross into NSW. Maybe make that the new policy forever ..... lol
Pity, Victorians moving to NSW raises the average IQ of both states.
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1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:
Good point, but do the multi-nationals even compare when you look at the figures below ?
In 2016–17, the Australian Government estimates that it will spend around $158.6 billion on social security and welfare, and around $191.8 billion in 2019–20
The tax leaderboardindividual income tax at $170 billion or 39.3% of all revenue collected in Australia, income tax on enterprises at $77 billion or 17.7% of all revenue, GST at $55.5 billion or 12.8% of all revenue, and. excise taxes at $26.4 billion or 6.1% of all revenue.
The above is from a 2015 article.
It’s hard to estimate what tax is being avoided but I will note that a treasury and ATO task force has gotten back something like $5bn (or was it $8bn) recently from multi nationals.
Thats sure as hell more than being scammed by benefit bludgers.
Beyond that, the numbers don’t say much apart from our tax base is inefficient and too narrow. I’ve got a lot of time Ken Henry who knows more about this stuff than most anyone.
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1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:Public housing has been slowly sold off over the years and they aren't increasing the build on more, the welfare system is appalling, the workers work to support those that scam the system day in and day out by paying taxes, they have mortgages and families to feed, with no incentive, and the government just increases more welfare for different types of things, while the worker paying all these taxes and is getting fed up.
To think one just has to live in Australia for 35 years, and not have worked can qualify for the old age pension, ridiculous, no contribution through taxes, yet throwing money at them, what is that, oh yes welfare, here you go dear/sir, $945 per fortnight plus, plus, plus for not contributing to the nation.
Have a kid, earn a low income and we will provide you with around $10,000 per annum, more per child, plus, plus, plus, no wonder everyone wants to live in the lucky country.
Nah, I don’t agree. I’d rather not us turn into a USA in the South Pacific with people and families thrown out into the cold if they aren’t ‘useful’ to society.
Most people just want to earn a living and go about doing so. I’m forever grateful for such a system personally when for a couple of years meant that I couldn’t work to look after a dying relative for a few years a decade ago. As a result, I’m more than happy to pay my Australian taxes even though I’m based in Thailand.
In the scheme of things people will always take the <deleted> for sure, but am I going to be more annoyed with a family who might be able to scam a few hundred extra per fortnight or a multi national who’s set up in the Bahamas via Ireland, the Netherlands and Malta? You take a guess.
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19 minutes ago, DoctorG said:We might have laughed or cried when Wuhan welded people into their apartments but this is no different. The high-rise housing consists of low income families and migrants. They are being held as virtual prisoners. Damned if I know how they are going to manage the variety of dietary requirements.
Firstly I hope that people in these places will be taken care of, but if this isn’t an excuse to rip down those commission flats once and for all then I don’t know what is. There has got to be a way to do social housing that doesn’t involve eyesores which also serve as petrie dishes.
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1 minute ago, johnpetersen said:At last, Trump has taken to heart the advice of his coronavirus task force
This is a picture of guests at the 4th of July party at the White House
Oops, My mistake.
If you notice, they are all taking very shallow breaths...
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2 hours ago, checkered flag said:Your a captive of the Fake News and they have you locked in mental chains. It's time to break free and stop being the Straw Man.
Thanks for that insight, Boxer.
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2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:
Things not looking good in Florida.
Arizona, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina all going straight up.
Just waiting for it to "all go away".
Hey don’t you know? It all went away in March - like magic you know.
What is happening now is people’s god given right to needlessly suffocate to death as free men and women.
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7 hours ago, klauskunkel said:2 Statues:
Donald J. Trump and Ronald McDonald
Both clowns...
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7 hours ago, VincentRJ said:They are free to protest peacefully.
Why don’t you try that out now in China, and let us know how it goes. If we don’t hear back from you, we will understand.
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16 minutes ago, checkered flag said:But in the ballot box they'll vote for law and order and not chaos and destruction.
You know he is actually the president at the moment. The chaos and destruction is happening on his watch. Not to mention the 140k deaths and rising.
The guy is a poster boy for incompetence.
And somehow - this will all vanish when he gets re-elected?
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1 hour ago, checkered flag said:A vote against Trump seems to be a vote for lawlessness and mob rule. Like the Animal Farm story playing out.
Which alternate universe version of the book did you read?
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39 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:
Facebook is an American company and the first amendment says you can say whatever you want, but now Facebook determines what can/can’t be said/allow themselves to be pressured into what is acceptable or not by companies, which is cherry picking in my opinion.
The first amendment talks about the government, and what it can and can’t do.
Facebook - as a platform - as an entity is perfectly within its rights to reject views it doesn’t fit within its own ethical boundaries.
A bit like a Christian cake maker not wanting to make a cake celebrating a gay wedding.-
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7 hours ago, nauseus said:Unpublished of course! ????
You haven’t done much negotiation in your life have you? You don’t go into one advertising your final position.
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6 hours ago, Throatwobbler said:And if we wanted anymore proof just read this by Crazy Alex.
This time he was so anxious to get into his rant about leftists he mention it in his 3rd word. It really is sad but what else do you expect?
They are strange beasts aren’t they? Basically anyone who they disagree with is a ‘leftist’. I always have a bit of a giggle when their posts come up. They are inanely predictable.
Its a sad construct that has gained currency as the insult de jour for the reactionaries and other assorted chest thumpers who’s political ideology only goes as far as wrapping themselves in a flag yelling ‘my country right or wrong!’. Compassion? Forget about it! The past? The place to be!
These fellas call themselves free marketers but are really all about (as we see here) dictating to everyone their version of the truth.
I’ve joked about it before, but for these guys, anyone to the left of Ghengis Khan is a ‘leftist’.
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Since when did our more, ahem, ‘conservative’ members of TV become raving socialists?
FB is a private platform. Your ‘free’ access to it is paid for by these advertisers. If they don’t want their advertising dollars providing a forum for knuckle headed howling at the sky, it it’s their prerogative.
If you don’t like what they are doing, feel free to start up your own global social media platform - the good free market capitalists you claim to be...
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11 hours ago, trainman34014 said:
Moving Deckchairs around on the Titanic again !
In this case, the Titanic is already sunk and at the bottom of the ocean.
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2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:
"Raab admitted there was little Britain could do to “coercively force” China if it tried to block take-up of the government’s visa pledge." “But ultimately we need to be honest that we wouldn’t be able to force China to allow BNOs to come to the UK.”
And we know thats exactly what China will do, ban the BNO holders passage to the UK.
China, we shouldn’t be surprised, is speaking out of its ars3.
All Macau residents born before their handover have full Portuguese citizenship. Unless China wants make HK a prison (not out of the realms of possibility) there is nothing the can do to stop people leaving.
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Smart by Putin not overly stuffing the ballot boxes to create an illusion of democracy.
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43 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:
I think I'm going to repeat much of what I said in a previous thread.
I'm very happy that the UK is, finally, offering BNO's full UK residency.
They should have done it in 1997, pity it took a Beijing crackdown to make the UK do the right thing!
Trouble is they is really little support the outside world can give HK, other than to give Hong Kongers a way out.
I was flabbergasted when I read in a previous thread where a posters accused the US of 'throwing Hong Kong under the bus' after Pompeo announced the removal of special treatment to HK, which was based on the autonomy enshrined in the handover agreement, which Beijing seems perfectly fine to tear up!
In Congress there are currently several bipartisan bills which would give special refugee status to Hong Kongers similar to the refugee status given to students after Tiananmen.
Similar efforts are going on in Taiwan, while tiptoeing around antagonizing Beijing.
So I think we are seeing support as much as we can. The US can impose some sanctions, as ineffectual as I fear they will be.
But the UK can't do anything for fear of retaliation, and the EU will just do what they always do, waffle
I was one of the people who have said the current US administration has thrown HK under the bus.
Trump has paid little or no attention to human rights or civil liberties, even In his own countries. Bolton has said that trump essentially didn’t care if the CCP went ahead with the internment camps in western China.
Dictators see this lack of spine as license as a way to push the boundaries, which they have. They didn’t even need to think twice on it.
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17 hours ago, car720 said:
Too many gladiators. Gentlemen play golf.
We can give you the Melbourne sandbelt as autonomous self governing territories.
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1 hour ago, samran said:Come on Boris. Time to man up and give those eligible BN(O) passport holders full residency and work rights in the UK.
Seems I spoke too soon.
Well done PM.
Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
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'Acting' about sums it up.
"Hey look everyone - I'm pretending to run an airline".
'Puff and Pie' is probably their most valuable asset at the moment, apart from their LHR landings slots.
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Hope the Brits strip Carrie Lam of her British passport.
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Come on Boris. Time to man up and give those eligible BN(O) passport holders full residency and work rights in the UK.
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Australia closes state border for first time in 100 years to halt coronavirus
in World News
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Well said.
And once in they’ll advocate for closing the borders again as they’ll be pointing to <insert favourite whipping boy> as proof of the need to keep them shut.