Diary of our stinking Govt.

[boris1gary]

As it's more than 100 days now, it has been suggested that a new thread was needed.  The current govt has been breaking promises and telling lies at a rate so fast it's hard to keep up.

This below is worrying, "independent" pffft, as if your own doctor is somehow what? biased, it's ridiculous. So far there is talk of only including people under a certain age 30-35, for now. Remember that if your injured in a car, injured at work or get ill, you too might need to go on the DSP. They have done a similar think in the UK with devastating consequences.

and this is the 2nd time recently where the Govt has referred to work as welfare???? So when you go to work tomorrow (or tuesday), just remember that's welfare.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-20/disability-pensioners-may-be-reassessed-kevin-andrews/5400598

Independent doctors could be called in to reassess disability pensioners, Federal Government says

The Federal Government is considering using independent doctors to examine disability pensioners and assess whether they should continue to receive payments.

Currently family doctors provide reports supporting claims for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).

But Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews is considering a measure that would see independent doctors reassess eligibility.

"We are concerned that where people can work, the best form of welfare is work," Mr Andrews said at a press conference.

[gleee58]

Since you keep talking about how much tax the miners pay, would you care to research and report back on how much tax Gina and Twiggy have each paid over the past 10 years?   

And while you're at it how much they have received in rebates, offsets, grants, infrastructure development for their projects, payment to report their opinion and discounts on their tax bills?

Thanks.

[debra9275]

 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-nasty-tax-surprise-about-to-hit-the-averag...
 
notice how they don't say 'the left think this"  the right think that   :smileyhhappy:
 
 
 
http://www.tai.org.au/content/queensland-taxpayers%E2%80%99-2-billion-abbot-point-subsidies-bill
 
http://www.acfonline.org.au/be-informed/climate-change/fossil-fuel-subsidies
 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-24/mining-industry-receives-billions-of-dollars-in-state-subsidie...
 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-25/nrn-dist-mining-subsidies/4778042
 
 
plenty of articles on the net about how tax payers subsidise mining -I've only shown a small sample

[debra9275]

oh yes and the tax avoidance of mining companies is a whole other matter ( to us tax payers)

thanks Gleee

[debra9275]

that post I made up there turned out really weird 

I'll try it again

notice how they don't say 'the left think this" and the right think that

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-nasty-tax-surprise-about-to-hit-the-averag...

plenty of articles on the net about how tax payers subsidise mining -I've only shown a small sample

http://www.tai.org.au/content/queensland-taxpayers%E2%80%99-2-billion-abbot-point-subsidies-bill

http://www.acfonline.org.au/be-informed/climate-change/fossil-fuel-subsidies

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-24/mining-industry-receives-billions-of-dollars-in-state-subsidie...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-25/nrn-dist-mining-subsidies/4778042

[debra9275]

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@monman12 wrote:

"miserable watching poor Indonesian fishermen rescue refugees while my taxes go to the world's biggest coal mine"

Your taxes going where? (under both Govts)

Australian

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The Left typically tries to create the impression the “rich” aren’t paying their “fair share”. Consider former treasurer Wayne Swan’s attacks on “mining billionaires” and welfare groups’ continual prattling about the financial benefit of concessional super taxation to high-income earners.

The Right, meanwhile, evokes the ordinary, “battling” taxpayer, whose hard-won earnings, so the argument goes, are siphoned off to pay for inefficient or ineffective government programs.

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so monman12, do you have any other proof that taxpayers don't fund mining companies? or is all you have is  that the Australian newspaper says

The Left typically tries to create the impression the “rich” aren’t paying their “fair share”. Consider former treasurer Wayne Swan’s attacks on “mining billionaires”

I would hope that you're not so gullible as to believe that as being a fact, without any further proof of what you claim

[debra9275]

http://media.smh.com.au/news/national-news/woooooo-theyre-halfway-there-6550580.html

[debra9275]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/small-business-tax-cut-will-not-be-as-effectiv...

Small business tax cut 'will not be as effective' as Abbott government thinks

The tax cut for small businesses in the Abbott government's second budget will not be as effective as the government wants, economists have warned.

And the government is also likely to struggle with the 'fairness' question again this year, once all of the budget's numbers have been crunched.

The chief economist of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Saul Eslake, says the Abbott government's decision in its second budget to cut the company tax rate by 1.5 percentage points, from 30 per cent to 28.5 per cent, for small businesses with annual turnover of $2 million or less will not be as effective as it wants.
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He says despite the popular belief that small businesses are big job creators and innovators, the tax cut is unlikely to have "any material impact in stimulating stronger economic growth" because a smaller proportion of companies than expected will benefit from it.

"Almost 63 per cent of small companies will derive no benefit from [the 1.5 percentage point tax cut] because they are neither profitable nor taxable," Mr Eslake has written in a note to clients.

[debra9275]

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/abbotts-policy-flipflopping-is-a-bit-of-a-worry-20150521-gh6f83.html?u...

Abbott’s policy flip-flopping is a bit of a worry

The PM’s learnt a lesson, but the danger now is he’ll keep chasing the populist angle.

Desperate Liberals who came together in the summer to force Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey out of their jobs, can now be said to have succeeded on one level.

While the 39 malcontents fell short of dislodging the leadership, the unnervingly high vote provided all the shock value necessary for changes in policy and presentation so profound, that the malcontents' main purpose was achieved. As Samuel Johnson noted coldly, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully". And so it did with Abbott.

While many of the key agitators from February have expressed relief at the budget they were handed this year, acknowledging it is an 'easy sell' in their electorates compared to the toxic shock of 2014, some are also worried about what happens next. 

The drastic action had been spontaneous yet heartfelt – a cumulative reaction to failed attempts by front-line MPs to convince their Prime Minister that his administration was careening. It was unwelcome feedback that was belittled by Abbott and cast as disloyal by an omniscient prime minister's office more inclined to shoot the messenger than brook alternative views

[debra9275]

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/22/labor-greens-and-crossbenchers-concerned-at-tr...

Labor, Greens and crossbenchers concerned at Trans-Pacific Partnership

Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers have formed a new group to raise concerns about the highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership deal as political opposition builds ahead of its signing.

The historic agreement between 12 Pacific rim nations could be reached within a fortnight, as the United States mobilises support behind president Barack Obama’s centrepiece trade policy

The group aims to better inform the community, via educating parliamentarians, on the implications of the deal.

“If people realised what this delivered, they would be horrified,” Parke said. “There are many [parliamentary] colleagues who have expressed concern about the TPP.”

Of particular concern is the lack of information on what the deal contains. Parliamentarians will not know the contents of the agreement until trade minister Andrew Robb has already signed off on it. A committee will be able to scrutinise the deal, but will not be able to change a single word.

Whish-Wilson said opposing it after it has been signed will be incredibly difficult.

[gleee58]