THE Abbott Government has been handed a double dissolution trigger from Labor and the Greens, and a challenge to send the people to another election over its carbon policies.
Legislation to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation was voted down in the Senate today for a second time.
A number of other carbon tax repeal bills could face the same fate.
It means the Coalition has the power to use the bill to trigger a double dissolution and call another election of both houses.
I find it bizarre that they are spending so much money to send a personalised letter to the pensioners just to explain that they will be ....... of never mind
http://www.news.com.au/national/abb...over-budget-cuts/story-fncynjr2-1226957935144
So some quick maths :- 2.4 million letters at a cost of say $2.00 each made up of stationery, envelope, stamp, print costs etc. = just shy of 5 million dollars WASTED !!!
Perhaps if the Green/Labor socialist left wing could stop their stupid propaganda and lies, then these letters would not be necessary.
Perhaps if the Green/Labor socialist left wing could stop their stupid propaganda and lies, then these letters would not be necessary.
I am not sure how you came up with a figure of $2 per letter but I believe you have inflated the cost to it make look worse than it really is.
I am not sure whether the Government even pays postage...perhaps some other ASF members may know better.....I tried to google the subject in question but could not find an answer.
MAY KEY FIGURES
Not another election ...
http://www.news.com.au/national/gre...f-the-carbon-tax/story-fncynjr2-1226958741882
With a bit of luck, we will get Labor back, we deserve it.
Luck has not so much to do with it .... The proletariat deserve the government they elect.
Back to the printing press and throw it around to the bleeding hearts and artists I say !! Austerity or Prosperity? The answer is who pays the bill when the music stops? Which leads me to a vexing question that I am sure the more cerebral type of ASF member can answer.
To what debt levels can Australia bend to and still remain liquid? Does the debt ceiling need to be raised again? Do we need $700 cheques x 3 in the mail to spend on imported goods to stimulate the economy? As in that we seem to be carrying far less debt (Government and personal) than just about any other Western civilised Country. Austerity or Prosperity? Is Labor mentality of spending up big to pay your way out of a hypothetical recession or is it far better for Liberals to be toe cutting the economy? Do you spend your way out of debt to encourage the economy and tax the proletariat more? Or do you toe cut and sneakily shift boundaries to increase revenue from already underfunded failing systems?
Greece or Germany? Who got it right?
There is no debt ceiling. The Government with the Greens have removed it.
Better question is should the 8% of GDP in tax expenditures (highest in the world according to the OECD) be targeted. That's over $120B worth of foregone revenue. Surely there's some fat in there that could be taxed better?
perhaps if this government had a modicum of communication skills, they could explain their budget properly, as it is they are trying to sell a stinking carcass using taxpayers money, and proving as hopeless at that as they are bringing down an equitable budget.
PUUULEEEEZE peoples ... solutions and not fanciful hip shots is the order of the day. Who is right? Is there any country that has spent it's way out of a hypothetical "recession" ?? Would it work? Did it work for Greenspan? Or is it right to be toe cutting and cutting costs?
Discuss ...
Sydboy007 might have exposed a flaw in the tax system that could easily be implemented to the tune of 120 billion. Is there any other ideas out there?
To make wine you must crush grapes to release the goodness. You have to break eggs to make an omelette. There needs to be some rough and tumble to be able to come to a solution. If an audience is required to pepper the rhetoric than so be it. Superannuation is a cash cow for the government and I am sure they have not finished tweaking the purse strings on this behemoth just yet. The government runs a fine line of either upsetting the industries that drive the stock market and or the economy as well as regulated savings. These are the "untouchables" but if it is mining or profit orientated (read free enterprise) then the government of the day thinks it is fair game (usually Labor policy to crush the employer) and I am wondering if Tony has the balls to implement similar strategies of taxing the BIG END of town or is he more for trimming the snouts in the trough methodology.
If it is a saving and for the greater good of the country then does it matter whose policy it is?
P.S. NSW won the State of Origin
P.P.S. Do you think the Libs will pull the trigger and go back to the polls?
perhaps if this government had a modicum of communication skills, they could explain their budget properly, as it is they are trying to sell a stinking carcass using taxpayers money, and proving as hopeless at that as they are bringing down an equitable budget.
The problem is Rumpy, not only is the coalition fitting against the lies and the propaganda of the the Green/Labor socialist left, they are also having to contend with the biased ABC and Fairfax who do not want to see the Coalition remove the stinking dead carcass left behind by the Green/Labor socialist left.....
Plenty of alternatives have been put up by myself and others on this forum that would have reduced the deficit more fairly than this budget has.
I won't go into detail again, but here are a few
Don't get rid of revenue sources like the carbon tax and mining tax (and don't spend the money that Labor allocated against the mining tax)
Phase out negative gearing on residential property
Don't introduce expensive PPL
Reduce tax avoidance by high income earners via family trusts and superannuation
Take action against tax avoiding international companies
Apply the medical co-payment directly to public hospitals
Reduce diesel fuel rebate
If necessary, modestly increase income tax rates across the board , and the Medicare levy.
Just up the company tax rate, broaden the super profits tax, increase the carbon tax and increase tax rates for those on $80k+,.
Increase the dole, increase the pension, increase rent assistance, increase first home buyers grant,increase 457 visas for remote area workers.
Problem solvered.
The High Court has ruled in favour of a Queensland father who challenged federal funding for the national schools chaplaincy program.
The challenge was launched by Ron Williams, who says there is no place in public schools for non-secular programs.
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