kevins stupid tax, page-26

  1. 93 Posts.
    Anyone who quotes a newspaper article, particularly one from the Murdock press, simply exposes their ignorance and lack of intellectual sophistication. I worked in news since 1962, in fact in 1963 I was working in the very building that the Courier Mail is based, but it was then under different ownership.

    I can tell you without hesitation that only about 5% of what is printed on Rupert's "free toilet paper" has any resemblance to fact.

    So, bj14, were you around when Gough Whitlam was PM?

    If you were, and if you allow your obvious bias to stand aside in favour of fact, you would remember that in spite of that government's fiscal shortcomings, they passed some of the most important legislation for social justice in the history of Australia. Before Whitlam, Australia was a much less democratic country with a number of restrictive 18th century laws.

    True, Rex Connor went a little crazy trying to raise funds for infrastructure and like all politicians, Gough himself had an ego that was so big they needed a truck to carry it.

    I was working in Brisbane radio the day Gough was elected and in Sydney Television the day he was dismissed. I remember it very well because I was involved in bringing the news and current affairs to air.

    There is no similarity between Whitlam's government and the present government. It is a totally different political environment. Perhaps the proposed super tax needs some work but on the other hand, who are you to say? Chances are that you don't even understand what is being proposed and you are simply jumping on the hate bandwagon without actually understanding what it is you are hating.

    What is clear, is that the customers buying our resources are getting them far too cheaply. We need a mechanism whereby an adjustment to taxation arrangements increases our national earnings from our resources, removes some of the burden from exploration companies while they are still burning capital and puts an end to the two-speed economy that causes different people and different parts of Australia to have either benefit or disadvantage from the resources boom.

    While the boom is great overall, it has brought hardship to many in the form of higher interest rates and no benefit.

    Instead of simply joining the howling wolf pack, how about educating yourself so that you can speak with knowledge rather than regurgitation some other ill-informed bleater's papp.

    I have know Tony Abbott as my former local member for a number of years. Believe me, he is NOT prime minister material.
 
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