@lind9650 wrote:
I don't think a Double Dissolution would achive anything. I have not heard one politician come up with a plan to better our situation regarding all aspects of life.
Health, Education, Welfare and most of all Jobs. Everyone is a critic (including me) but nobody has a solid proposal to improve anything.
Erica 😞
There have been plenty of alternatives put up Erica, the "budget crisis" is a furphy to begin with...there are plenty of ways to increase revenue which this budget makes little attempt at doing...
Time to end Tony Abbott’s deceitful debt scare campaign
http://theaimn.com/2014/05/26/time-to-end-tony-abbotts-deceitful-debt-scare-campaign/
Myths, lies and deceit
http://www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2014/1640/06-fb-myth-lied-and-deceit.html
Don't tax students, tax the entitled
When it comes to forgoing potential government revenue by offering some people tax concessions Australia leads the OECD. In fact, we blow most other countries out of the water. Estimates suggest we give back about 8 per cent of our GDP, well over $120 billion, and that the vast bulk of OECD countries concede less than half of this portion.
And who does it benefit? Me – and others like me – who are investing extra income we made courtesy of our free university education.
It's the likes of Pyne and myself, who, come July 1, if we can find a handy $50,000 down the back of the couch can plough it into our superannuation at a tax rate of 15 per cent when as income it would have been taxed at double or triple that amount.
It's Hockey and me who are most likely to own an investment property or two that we can negatively gear to our advantage.
Surely winding back these arrangements is a fairer way to "lift not lean" than increasing the debts of students who already pay an appropriate amount for their degrees which will benefit them, but also all of us. Our scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers, our Treasurer and Education Minister, and all but two prime ministers since 1950, have all had the benefit of an Australian university education.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/dont-tax-students-tax-the-entitled-20140529-zrrvd.html#ixzz33GoxFua...
