Renters are worse off than Rent Seekers due to Mining Boom

[fourandsixpants]

http://m.theage.com.au/business/the-mining-boom-how-the-nation-spent-the-windfall-20140824-107umc.ht...

.....we didn't just spend the boom windfall on cars and household gadgets.

It drove a 20 per cent lift in food purchases and an 8 per cent boost in purchases of communications services, such as internet and telephone use......

Renters have not fared so well out of the boom because it led to a substantial reduction in vacancy rates and a sharp rise in rents.

[bushies.girl]

isn't that lib trait paints?

[fourandsixpants]

HHHHmmmmmn

[kilroy_is_here]

The federal government needs to keep their hands off what doesn't belong to them, the minerals belong to the states as per the constitution of this country and royalties are set and charged by the states, the mineral resources tax was a Robin Hood tax designed to rob the mining states and give to the states with none , a process that happens regularly with the gst carve up.

[boris1gary]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

@icyfroth wrote:

so what's the solution?

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@paintsew007 wrote:

1. sack the present rulers

2. sack the RBA

3. get some competent adults in to do the jobs of 1 & 2

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 The solution some on here want is  is this Icy......  

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so is that a pic of Obama? And are you suggesting that "fair share", "tax the rich", "spread the wealth" and economic equality are bad things for a nation to aspire to. What would be your wise words? 

unfair share, tax the poor (even more), more wealth to the wealthy and even more economic inequality?

[fourandsixpants]

agreed 100% kilroy ref your brilliant and truthful comment:

The federal government needs to keep their hands off what doesn't belong to them, the minerals belong to the states as per the constitution of this country and royalties are set and charged by the states, the mineral resources tax was a Robin Hood tax designed to rob the mining states and give to the states with none , a process that happens regularly with the gst carve up.

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[boris1gary]

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
The federal government needs to keep their hands off what doesn't belong to them, the minerals belong to the states as per the constitution of this country and royalties are set and charged by the states, the mineral resources tax was a Robin Hood tax designed to rob the mining states and give to the states with none , a process that happens regularly with thegst carve up.

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yes it's called looking after the nation as a whole, even Team Australia if you prefer.

[fourandsixpants]

yes.

Even Colin Barnett a Lib Premier for WA does not think much of Abbott....or Pyne .....:

Barnett is keeping up pressure on the carve up. “For Western Australia we will continue to bang on about the distribution of the GST” between states.

He also said the base should be widened with all exemptions removed except for health and education.

But WA wants the distribution addressed before any broader reforms dealing with the exemptions from the base.

WA, as a prosperous state, accepted it had a responsibility to subsidise weaker states “but there is a limit”. At the moment virtually all the cross subsidy was coming from WA. “So we think that other states can share that burden and maybe the Commonwealth can pick up a bit of its responsibility particularly to the territories.”

He wanted a decade-long plan to improve WA’s share, and rejected the argument that the carve up was a matter for the states.

“It requires some national leadership.”

http://theconversation.com/colin-barnett-interview-can-canberra-meet-disability-commitment-20858

[boris1gary]

barnet is only looking after himself, we are supposed to be a nation, not a fiefdom broken up into states looking after only their own - abbott wants to dismantle the federation - i would prefer to get rid of the state governments and have regional councils. It's all swings and roundabouts anyway, when WA wasn't doing so well it was quite happy to take money from other states. Let's stop the dividing and leave the state against state rubbish to the football. 

[kilroy_is_here]

As he should he was voted in to look after the interest of WA not that of other states. As to doing away with state governments with centralised power in Canberra no thanks , you can keep your communist modelling away from WA , as good sessionist the less power over east the better

[boris1gary]

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
As he should he was voted in to look after the interest of WA not that of other states. As to doing away with state governments with centralised power in Canberra no thanks , you can keep your communist modelling away from WA , as goodsessionist the less power over east the better

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so it's "communist modelling" please a humour warning next time, I spilt my coffee laughing so much. When the mining boom boom is well and truly over and WA is back to where it was before the boom I'm sure the "looking after ourselves" song will be a little different.