Agreed 100% though there are a few employers who are exceptions.Apprentices in recent times (as far as I have been told) are mainly "trained" as cheap labour-hire substitutes and have very limited skills/training compared to the past.
its brilliant.... on the 7:30 report, they played clips of the 96 election..
1. Howard saying he's not going to be rushed into releasing his tax plan
2. Keating running adds saying the liberals are inexperienced and can't be trusted in govt
funny stuff... the same things repeated, now just with the sides switced...
the best thing to take of all this, is that in 6 weeks it will be over, and life will go on...
I wouldn't worry too much about it, They don't know as much as they think they do at this inexperienced stage of their life. They are outnumbered, and while they are an important part of society they are not yet in charge of the situation. They are out numbered by reformed hippies from the 70s.On the SBS Insight program last night the forum consisted almost entirely of young voters - many of them first timers in this election
One of the over-riding impressions that the presenter (and myself) got from the whole forum was the powerful sense of disconnection these young voters had for the whole political process, with significant numbers saying things like :
(a) they didn't really care about looking into the various policies and instead would vote the way their parents told them to vote.
(b) they preferred to get politically informed by comedy shows like The Chaser and generally thought the whole process was a "bit of a joke".
(c) they had grown up with everything they wanted, lacking for nothing and couldn't care less if everything just continued on the same.
I found all these off-the-cuff remarks somewhat disturbing, coming as they were from the very people who will be running the country in a few more years and who are supposed to be deciding THEIR futures! A care less attitude is not what the doctor ordered.....AJ
I wouldn't worry too much about it, They don't know as much as they think they do at this inexperienced stage of their life. They are outnumbered, and while they are an important part of society they are not yet in charge of the situation. They are out numbered by reformed hippies from the 70s.
Hehe, I dunno about thatYup. You could be right The Mint Man. We might have Liberal Governments for the next 50 years straight.... at least I won't be around to see that!
AJ
Indexed to inflation, the tax cuts deliver nothing to taxpayers.
JOHN Howard's $34 billion tax cut is neither a fistful of dollars nor tax reform. It is a chimera designed to give back to wage earners the growth in the tax burden as wages rise with inflation, pushing workers into higher tax brackets.
Malcolm Fraser introduced income tax indexation in 1976 to impose discipline and honesty on government financial management.
The automatic indexation of income tax scales in line with inflation was taken for granted by taxpayers. It was quickly abandoned so that the Fraser (and subsequent) governments could get the credit for tax cuts legislated in parliament in a blaze of publicity.
But nobody has tried this old ploy on the scale of the Howard Government, apparently building the strategy for the six-week election campaign around it. Nevertheless, if the headlines are any guide, the media have taken the bait. They all stressed the total $34 billion tax cut. It looks huge — because it aggregates four years' worth of cuts.
Canberra economist Ian McAuley has crunched the Coalition's tax cuts in real and nominal terms, based on Treasury's inflation rate assumption of 2.75 per cent for 2007-08 for the four-year period.
The figures — online at the Centre for Policy Development website — show that the so-called tax cuts of $34 billion are about equal to the cost of full tax indexation over the period.
In other words, if wages don't keep pace with inflation or if inflation moves above the upper band of 3 per cent set by the Reserve Bank to manage monetary policy, wage earners' real disposable incomes could fall despite the nominal tax cuts.
Wage earners can study the detailed tables for their own situations. The broad picture is clear enough: income tax revenue is now $120 billion. Based on an inflation rate of 2.75 per cent — and without any increase in real wages — income tax revenue can be expected to rise by $3.3 billion in 2007-08 if not indexed. Over four years this rise would be roughly equal to $33 billion (3.3 + 6.6 + 9.9 + 13.2).
Likewise,since this topic is about tax... here is an interesting article from SMH...
Ready or not, it’s time for answers
Piers Akerman
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 05:39pm
OVER the past two months, Opposition leader Kevin Rudd complained that the Coalition was afraid of calling an election.
Labor, he bragged, was ready to roll.
On Sunday, Prime Minister John Howard called that election.
On Monday, Rudd said he wasn’t ready to discuss the ALP’s tax policy.
Now Rudd is dancing around the question of a debate.
He’s ready for three, he says, but not the one the Coalition wants this Sunday.
How long does it take for Rudd to prepare for anything?
Australia needs to know why the Goss government, incorporating the current Opposition leader, acted as it did, before it votes on November 24. And for the sake of justice, needs to know why this matter remains unresolved.
In a way I agree with your comments about fear, But lets get real here mate... thats what life is most the time EG:- The stock markets = fear, dont eat this or that its bad for you... eat subway instead = fear, mobile phones give you radiation so buy our hands free kit = fear, use our shampoo or you will get bad dandruff = fear, use this cream so that people dont see your big pimples = fear..... its no different in politics!judging by the posts on this and other forums, much of the country is relatively uninformed, or are swayed by the politics of fear..
judging by the posts on this and other forums, much of the country is relatively uninformed, or are swayed by the politics of fear.
absolutely. The fear campaign and misinformation propagated by the ALP and unions over workchoices has resulted in many people uninformed and unaware. many of these are completely swayed by the politics of fear....
And the only reason Howard is still there is the fear of a flood of asian boat people. Children overboard and all that, remember.
You needen't fear that Rudd has no tax policy, he will come up with one in due time.
Maybe you should fear that Howards tax cuts will leave no room for infrastructure investment or that it is a noncore promise that Costello is not bound to keep.
oh how could we forget.. the howard haters never miss a chance to bring up those old chestnuts.. but what about AWB?? - you forgot that one...
oh i dont doubt he is carefully copying down much of the libs policy as we speak.
ahhh the old "core" and "non-core" doozy. thats always a beauty.
Nioka, I don't think you can reasonably say the only reason John Howard is still there is the fear of a flood of Asian boat people. On the whole people have relegated that to the category "oh well, another stunt, but that was then". Now I have the impression that most people who are favouring the Libs are doing so essentially because (a) they feel they are good economic managers and without that, you have stuff all, and (b) they simply can't like the Opposition.And the only reason Howard is still there is the fear of a flood of asian boat people. Children overboard and all that, remember. you should fear that Howards tax cuts will leave no room for infrastructure investment or that it is a noncore promise that Costello is not bound to keep.
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