The Knots And The Taxed, As Well As The Not Taxed And the Tacks That Are Holding Up The Government
Where to start…
Let’s see, let’s begin with the idea that the Liberals are telling Labor that they should agree to pass all the savings measures that they said they would prior to the election or it’s a “clear broken promise”, while Malcolm is writing to Bill Shorten to suggest that he should abandon his commitment to a Royal Commission into the banks. It seems that even though Labor also took that one to the election, it’s ok to break that promise because… well, we want you to.
The idea of the Opposition breaking their election promise opens up a whole new concept in politics. I would have thought that, under the Liberals way of looking at things, if winning the election gives you the mandate to pursue all your policies, then losing should mean that you have no mandate to pursue any of them, but apparently losing the election doesn’t allow you to change policy any more. Which is strange because normally the Coalition is squealing that they won the election so Labor has no right to stick to any of its policies and should just let everything through the Senate without debate because they lost!
But Scott Morrison’s little speech today surely takes the cake. You know, that cake that even Marie Antoinette was prepared to let the peasants eat. Apparently, Scott thinks that Marie was far too generous and that some people don’t deserve cake because they don’t pay tax. Or rather, they get more in government benefits than they pay in tax.
And if it’s one thing that the Liberals have always been clear about it’s that people should always pay more in tax than they get back either in payments or services. They like always running surpluses whatever the economic circumstances and what’s a surplus but a government taking more in tax than it gives back in services and payments. Yes, the Liberals have always aimed to be a big taxing government, relative to their expenditure.
But remember, ScoMo has assured us that the government doesn’t have a revenue problem. Just an earnings problem.
What’s the difference?
Well, it’s quite simple. If we had a revenue problem we’d have to find additional revenue like new or increased taxes, but because we don’t want to do that, it’s an earnings problem. Which means that people and companies aren’t earning enough, because if they were they’d be paying more tax.
One way of helping companies earn more is the proposed company tax cut. Admittedly that’ll result in less tax for the government in the short term, but in the long term this will enable them to have a bigger deficit which will give them the excuse to cut health, education and welfare spending leading to savings for the Budget’s bottom line.
And, of course, the other problem that our Treasurer has worked out is that many people are receiving unemployment benefits and they expect to continue to do so, just because all our jobs are being done by 457 visa holders or sent overseas. But, of course, that’s because our workers are paid too much. If they were paid less…
Mmm. There’d be an even bigger revenue… sorry, earnings problem for the government.
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Return to home pageBravo! A perfect summation of Morrison logic!
But most of the people getting more benefits than they pay taxes, coz they don’t pay tax NOW! Were taxpayers all of their life before they retired and became pensioners. So they used to be useful earnings comtributors but now are the Not Taxed At All bludgers we are all supporting.
So by Scottys logic he deserves no parliamentary pesion when he retires as he will no longer be contributing!!!
W are in the grip of amoral ratbags, bloody-minded idiots and gibbering psychopaths.
and would some of these taxed nots be cayman island bank account holders i wonder, or are they different.
Just yet another ridiculous comment from yet another of the very many inept, lying, obscenely over-paid so-called liberal politicians. He has obviously read from the Rabbitt/Wobbly play book re all these “disgusting” leaners we have in Australia! Lets not forget the worst “leaners” are ALL the politicians, what with their obscenely generous so-called “pensions”, all the perks & extras they get etc. All the ordinary people of Australia, Pensioners, workers etc will once more have to suffer further cuts to benefits, etc just because this inept, effing lying mob want to give all their obscenely wealthy mates all the tax breaks etc they can! After all, that’s what the libs stand for, don’t they? BASTARDS!!
Yeah, what etnorb said.
People not paying tax, even though the tax free threshold is below the poverty line. Surely that is a hint even for Scomo
The 10% and corporations are in the Not-Game-Enough-To-Tax bracket for the LNP.
Now governments have “earnings” – all the better to corporatise us.
If you want to be valued you have to be a ‘taxed knot’. With a large nest egg.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/26/a-piece-of-string-a-banana-and-a-cassowary-walk-into-scott-morrisons-bar
One way of helping companies earn more is the proposed company tax cut. Admittedly that’ll result in less tax for the government in the short term, but in the long term this will enable them to have a bigger deficit which will give them the excuse to cut health, education and welfare spending leading to savings for the Budget’s bottom line. A question if I may “How will the Treasurer receive less tax, when the corporations, 579 of them have not paid a cent in tax since 2013?