@4channel wrote:
BTW: Lyndal knows the point I was trying to make. The point was (and this has been the case before in another discussion) that the day will come that an oprdinary transaction between two neighbours will have GST attatched to it because we are headed into a more cashless society as well. And I'll give you an example here. One neighbour has an unwanted item. A couch or coffee table. Other neighbour says .. .. "Hey, I wouldn't mind having that. I'll give you fifty bucks for that". Then there has to be a GST declaration made on that. This day will come. We will see private transactions having GST.
Not even all businesses are required to charge GST at this point in time, so I think we are a very, very long way off all transactions, regardless of the situation, incurring it.
Of course, if you have credible sources to back up this prediction of yours, which has information that can be supported by data (not supposition), I'll be all ears eyes and will post a retraction. If you don't, your assertion that this is an inevitibility is no different from any other chicken running around saying the sky is falling - hey, maybe one day the sky will fall, or your prediction will come to pass, but until you can substantiate it with something other than your disdain for the government, it holds absolutely no water.
If we become a cashless society, and GST applies to every single exchange of currency for goods and / or services, you do reaslise bartering will make a huge comeback, though, right? I mean, I'll just grow 'taters, learn to make vodka, and see who wants to trade me for some brussell sprouts or something. At least until the corrupt government finds a way to genetically alter veggies so that they all have a barcode on them, and an inherent currency value.
