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09/06/25

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Originally posted by mickhp: ↑

" A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, ..... to be followed by a dictatorship."

Alexander Fraser Tytler.

This is where Australia has descended to in the last 20 odd years.
Voting for Governments at both State and Federal levels that bribed different sections of the community with gifts from the public treasury.

Examples being, First Homebuyers schemes, discount 20% off HELP education debts, free child care, subsidising electricity prices.

To pay for these bribes, we are now increasing taxes on the means of production. Land taxes, superannuation taxes, unearned income taxes, bracket creep, sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco, coal taxes, windfall property taxes on rezoned land up to 62% on any increase in value from rezoning.

This on top of soaring public debt.

Victoria has introduced about 54 new taxes over the last 10 years.

You can vote socialism in, but you have to fight dictatorship/communism out.

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As Margaret Thatcher said,
" Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else.
And it always gets to that.
What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property."
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