Progressive income tax scales are not double dipping.
Other (separate) taxes could be called double-dipping, so are you proposing the abolishment of all other taxes (i.e. GST, medicare levy, fuel tax, ‘luxury car tax’, stamp duty, the new bank profits tax)?
Oh really, how for example does one decide they want to invest it in the defence of their country?
I was thinking of Sen. Sinodinas (the list just keeps getting longer).
OK, I guess the dual citizenship has been at the forefront of my mind, but I won’t bother asking what policies are you referring to; I’ll just note that I see Shorten has kept his head down on the 26 January thing, saying keep it as-is.
What? Since when is compulsory acquisition being used in that way?
Money isn’t identical to property.
Do you have a specific idea on how?
The problem is the far-right choose to spin everything including a progressive tax scale as a hand-out while ignoring the reality that properly funding education & health are investments in the future, including productivity of our nation, and overall (indirectly, over time) helps everyone.
Because it’s a waste of money. Where is the LNP’s increased support for drug treatment programmes, and how about listening to the experts & seeing drugs as a symptom and helping those to deal with their issues instead of just jailing them? (Locking people up unnecessarily is bad all around; jails are expensive, and how many people come out worse than when they went it?)
It’s not one-side versus another.
Everyone paying any income tax contributes to consolidated revenue, and the vast majority of tax is paid by working class people, while the most well off have expensive (the cost of which they deduct from their taxes) accountants & tax lawyers to help them pay less than the average worker.
I’d love the Buffet rule to come in; a simple cap on how much an individual can deduct. It’s a shame many pollies are too gutless to even consider this brilliantly simple measure.
Yeah & no. It’s not just small businesses, and what about the workers, who (as I’d said even the Reserve Bank says) need pay rises.
Out of control inflation was & would be a disaster, but stagnant wages are another serious problem.
Reasonable pay is essential for social cohesion, and helps keep the economy going: A reasonable amount of disposable income will be spent at small businesses (e.g. eating out more often than when a family is struggling to pay the mortgage/rent & power bills).
Lower wages are actually becoming bad for business. More customer demand is what really makes businesses grow; a business won’t hire another person just because they have a lower wage bill, they’d just have more profit, but they will hire if there is more work (/more customers).
So again, the simplistic right-wing slogans/etc. being peddled don’t match the reality of the world.
