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movingtarget

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The tax revenue coming in for the next financial year is increasing because the Government is making businesses pay their tax earlier to help achieve their surplus budget.

Spending isn't really falling when you see that the Government is not including many of their big policies in the expenditure for the budget. I am happy that they are cutting the Baby Bonus as that was a tad extravagant policy by the Howard Government which continued through with Labor although I do not support the cuts to the Private Health Insurance rebate as that is an important and good policy that takes the pressure off the public health system therefore reducing costs placed on the states to fund Hospitals.

I think this surplus is more about political survival than fiscal responsibility as if Labor does not deliver a surplus next year, they will have to call an early election because they can't win the next election without a surplus budget imo.
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It will only keep the pressure off if people continue with private medical insurance. I don't agree with it. $80,000.00 is nothing so why should people who have paid private insurance for years be penalised. Try and live in Sydney on 80 grand a year. Expect more public service jobs to go. So much for supporting working families.
 
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movingtarget said:
It will only keep the pressure off if people continue with private medical insurance. I don't agree with it. $80,000.00 is nothing so why should people who have paid private insurance for years be penalised. Try and live in Sydney on 80 grand a year. Expect more public service jobs to go. So much for supporting working families.
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I understand your thinking but I am pretty sure that people who are in the system already get the rebate as well but obviously the rebate acts as an incentive to have private health insurance.
 
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History shows Abbott's commitment to women's rights >>> http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4317886.html

This piece Michaela Nash really does put to bed the Labor smear campaign. Michaela actually forgot to put some details about the Ru486 drug and how even the health department advised TA to ban it, when he was health minister. Banning was ultimately nothing to do with Abbott's religious beliefs.
 
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Question to Rhubroma in your capacity as resident Italian expert - surely these utterly bizarre L'Aquila verdicts will be overturned on appeal? Surely?:eek:
 
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Question to Rhubroma in your capacity as resident Italian expert - surely these utterly bizarre L'Aquila verdicts will be overturned on appeal? Surely?:eek:
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Well that's another what I call 'Italian moment.'

There was an article about this strange verdict in today's la Gazzetta dello Sport, in the Altri mondi section by Giorgio dell'Arte, who, from the analytical perspective, is usually pretty informative, even if I don't always agree with his conclusions.

At any rate it seems as if the scientists have threatened to not make any more forecasts, for fear of being sued! This whole bizarre affair has to do with looking for a scapegoat to what has now become an odyssey for the residents of Aquila who lost their homes in the earthquake. At the time, Berlusconi promised that he (personally) would oversee the rebuilding of the Abruzzo city in something like 2 months! How do you think that turned out? Years afterward there are still many living in temporary shelters, while the guy in Berlusconi's government who was responsible for managing the financing of it all, was using some of the funds to invest in more lucrative construction projects like a hotel along the coast of Sardegna!

Now the scientists have come under fire by the legal magistrates. I can't see any of them doing any jail time, practically nobody actually does time in Italy unless for murder. I don’t know if the verdict will be overturned, though. Wait and see.
 
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That pr!ck will never see the inside of a cell, sadly.
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But it does mean that he can't run for office while it's in appeal, which will probably go on for years, or ever again if it's upheld. Either way, unless it's overturned for some reason in the not too distant future, at least his political career is over.
 
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Interesting to read today that with no Labor candidate in a by-election Sydney, former Labor party Prime Minister took a Liberal how-to-vote card before voting. It seems that Paul has come to his sense and with Paul's recent support for a new casino in Sydney, something the Liberals support, he may very well have voted for his former foe. :D In fact, Keating also admitted that he voted Liberal to the press.
 
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Interesting to read today that with no Labor candidate in a by-election Sydney, former Labor party Prime Minister took a Liberal how-to-vote card before voting. It seems that Paul has come to his sense and with Paul's recent support for a new casino in Sydney, something the Liberals support, he may very well have voted for his former foe. :D In fact, Keating also admitted that he voted Liberal to the press.
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The NSW Labor Party is so faceless that you wouldn't even know we had one. Very unlike the old style Keating.
 
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The NSW Labor Party is so faceless that you wouldn't even know we had one. Very unlike the old style Keating.
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You should add the South Australian party after yesterday's Senate preselection. Hey, why not just the whole Labor Party?:D
 
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....ahhh...praise the lord!...we finally have a tax idea that can be loved by just about "everybody" with half a brain ...err...at least half a brain...though for some odd reason not a real fave with those dumb-a$$ left-leaning mensa types....

...anyways, don't just take my word for it, read the good news below..

...will soon be a screaming headline at the local wrong wing astro-turf group meetings....gee can't wait for that...should be real fun selling this idea...

" That could soon be the law of the land in Pennsylvania, where the state legislature has passed a bill that would, as Philadelphia City Paper blogger Daniel Denvir describes it, “allow companies that hire at least 250 new workers in the state to keep 95-percent of the workers' withheld income tax.” These workers will essentially be paying their employers for the privilege of having a job. Some have called this “corporate socialism,” but it also calls to mind an even older economic model that was once popular in Europe – except back then, the bosses were called lords. It’s a more modern innovation in the U.S., but combined with increased political pressure from employers and a crackdown on workers’ rights, it all adds up to feudalism, American-style."

....from.... http://truth-out.org/news/item/12366-paying-taxes-to-your-boss-a-step-toward-21st-century-feudalism

Cheers

blutto
 
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blutto said:
....ahhh...praise the lord!...we finally have a tax idea that can be loved by just about "everybody" with half a brain ...err...at least half a brain...though for some odd reason not a real fave with those dumb-a$$ left-leaning mensa types....

...anyways, don't just take my word for it, read the good news below..

...will soon be a screaming headline at the local wrong wing astro-turf group meetings....gee can't wait for that...should be real fun selling this idea...

" That could soon be the law of the land in Pennsylvania, where the state legislature has passed a bill that would, as Philadelphia City Paper blogger Daniel Denvir describes it, “allow companies that hire at least 250 new workers in the state to keep 95-percent of the workers' withheld income tax.” These workers will essentially be paying their employers for the privilege of having a job. Some have called this “corporate socialism,” but it also calls to mind an even older economic model that was once popular in Europe – except back then, the bosses were called lords. It’s a more modern innovation in the U.S., but combined with increased political pressure from employers and a crackdown on workers’ rights, it all adds up to feudalism, American-style."

....from.... http://truth-out.org/news/item/12366-paying-taxes-to-your-boss-a-step-toward-21st-century-feudalism

Cheers

blutto
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Yeah. Read a similar article a while ago.

It's cutting out the middle man (the government); why collect taxes if you have already promised to return those muneez to the job creators anyway, to entice them to not just move their offices 2 miles over, into another state.

Subsidized jobs for everyone!
 
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Bala Verde said:
Yeah. Read a similar article a while ago.

It's cutting out the middle man (the government); why collect taxes if you have already promised to return those muneez to the job creators anyway, to entice them to not just move their offices 2 miles over, into another state.

Subsidized jobs for everyone!
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Brilliant! Let them capitalize on the reallocated taxes of their employees in the stock market.

In the meantime public healthcare is for wimps. Now I get it.
 
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Here are some brief thumbnails for you, Bala.

http://www.nu.nl/achtergrond/2950815/overzicht-ministers-en-staatssecretarissen-rutte-ii.html

I can't really contribute an informed opinion as I have pretty much ignored Dutch politics since the election once it became clear that the VVD would yet again be the largest party, which means more Rutte, more cutbacks, higher health insurance, etc. They are, however, increasing the speed limit on certain sections of the motorways from 100 to 120, and are allowing more sections of 130 max. Drivers, who are now paying an average of around 1.80 per liter (around $8.50+ pg,) are thrilled.:rolleyes:
 
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Bala Verde

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Amsterhammer said:
Here are some brief thumbnails for you, Bala.

http://www.nu.nl/achtergrond/2950815/overzicht-ministers-en-staatssecretarissen-rutte-ii.html

I can't really contribute an informed opinion as I have pretty much ignored Dutch politics since the election once it became clear that the VVD would yet again be the largest party, which means more Rutte, more cutbacks, higher health insurance, etc. They are, however, increasing the speed limit on certain sections of the motorways from 100 to 120, and are allowing more sections of 130 max. Drivers, who are now paying an average of around 1.80 per liter (around $8.50+ pg,) are thrilled.:rolleyes:
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Thanks man. Good stuff there. I am closely following the 'zorgpremie' calculations atm. Seems like a cl@stF555@

People widely proclaiming they'll lose 50% of their purchasing power or something haha. Oh. Politics.
 
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