tory tax bludgers are the problem 4192

Always happy to help the shortsighted develop some perspective! B^)

You seem surprised at the notion of accountability? 8^o

Oh I forgot.. with tories it ONLY GOES ONE WAY! B^D

Aren't they in government? Do they now disclaim responsibility for THEIR tax Regime, which they once touted as significant 'reform'(sic)?

Costello can bang on endlessly about "Keatings L-A-W law" but no one can mention "Costello's GST"??? Or "Howard's RECORD HIGHEST TAX GOUGE"? Or "Abbott's ROCKSOLID IRONCLAD VapourNet GUARANTEE"?

I feel like we are in an episode of Fawlty Towers;

'Don't mention Ze WAR" B^D

Look, i know tory PC tries to label every new tax gouge as 'reform' {snicker}, but a government that takes credit for every sunny day, or inherited growth rates from real reforms by past administrations, really should be prepared to acccept SOME responsibility for mal-administration on their watch! Sheesh!

But then, they won't be held accountable even for outright lies, deception and electoral fraud when they knew they were duping the Australian people over Medisnare VapourNet costings.

Real people are being hurt by their 'SPIN' wheras you try and put that label onto innocent amateurs who simply describe what happened;

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It is never a mistake to think, you just need to work on not being wrong.

I have been observing tory Spin Doctors for decades, I think it's important to hold up a mirror to their hypocrisy.

Amazing that the tories preside over such a mbuttive Black Hole and don't even like it being discussed! 8^o

How can they be so derelict in their duties and such incompetent economic managers?

Do you detect a pattern here, where the full force of the state apparatus is brought down on the weakest, most vulnerable members of society while the wealthy plutocrats who are the governments true consbreastuency, are free to bludge on their taxes?

Unemployed workers are regulary demonized as dole bludgers, but not a single word of criticism is levelled at 'tax bludgers'.

Another broken promise and false claim used to sell the GST

Rubbish, a simple VLOOKUP table in a spreadsheet will handle tax tables, my kids did them in secondary school.

The complexity, old son, has exploded under Howard's rebates, bonuses, levies, GST tax on top of fuel excise which have given us the huge expansion in explanatory documentation that small business and anyone who has to fill out returns complains of.

Weigh each of the tax guidelines for the past decade, Dave. B^D

A pensioner that can't afford medicine, or a family that can't afford an education of sufficient quality to gain university entrance simply don't have equal opportunity under American style user Pays-or- Dies Health care, or Buy a Uni Place for a Rich Dummy.

Menzies understood about real Equal Opportunity when he created a tertiary system which the working clbutt had a fair chance of accessing. Howard and the front bench benefited from it, and are now destroying it.

Policies which tax pensioners a much higher proportion of their pitiful income than they do Kerry Packer when both buy goods and services, and then fund a $3000 baby bonus to Sarah O'Hare Murdoch are not about 'equal opportunity'.

So you claim that if the son of Bill Gates receives Billions in income per year from his inherited wealth he should pay the same FLAT income tax as a bean picker who sweats to achieve the minimum defined by government regulation?

And thats your definition of an equitable outcome?

Even though the difference in their 'opportunities' are patently obvious to anyone sincerely concerned with equity?

Bearing in mind that the tory government submission at the recent minimum wage case has argued for a REAL DECREASE in that minimum, and the party's ideological goal is to see it removed altogether?

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