Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
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Rumour mill starting to suggest that the government is searching for ways to fill the holes in the public purse, and some genius is floating a 15% GST.
Yeah, trust these guys.
They remove transparency around the 1% EFT surcharge. Then ive heard remove the capability of using a credit card to pay. Wouldnt want to create the impression we lifted prices would we?
Increase taxation on everything under the sun, trying to create a "level playing field" by failing to hit the root cause of a lack of supply, lets smash demand!
Meanwhile, they spend like there is no tomorrow whilst somehow still failing to fill the needs of today.
Then, they blame joe average for inflation when every tom dick and harry know that Trumps war in Iran has more to do with it, than anything else. Oh there isnt fuel shortages, but we are now paying on average 70 cents a litre more at the pump than we did this time last year and what did they do? We cut the fuel excise for a couple of months there to help. Im lucky I get away with filling up my car once a month on average. My Mrs? Not so much. She has to go into 3 different offices across 4 days. So she is filling up once a week to once a fortnight. Oh get an EV. Yeah, we didn't budget for an expedited out of pocket cost of the car, the charging and the solar panels to really make it viable. Electricity still costs money.
Then what do we hear? People are still spending money...
I found out recently my 75 year old widow mother is unable to get a pension due to means testing. She owns her home outright you see, so she is self funding her retirement. Not even pensioner discounts, despite having worked, taken 12 to 15 years off to raise 3 kids, and then going back to work as a secretary. Her reward for losing her life partner early at age 56 was a one off payment into her super and a consolidated super amount. Sure, it has to be means tested, but not even getting pension discounts on stuff like electricity, insurance, registration and gas? Meanwhile, my inlaws get a pension from their country of origin because they moved here in 1990 and worked there until age 40. Guess what they also get, an Australian Pension, and all the discounts. 2 cars for them, 50% off. A pension from a european nation, and an Aussie one. Mum? Shes been here since she was 2. You pay full price. Make it make sense please, oh here it is. her parents emigrated here. Worked hard. Raised two daughters. They had kids. The parents passed 8 years ago, and their modest old family home that sold for less than 1 million, is fueling her retirement (split between 2 daughters). Ah gotcha. She's affluent now. Unlucky for her my dad died from cancer at age 56, she would have been a pensioner otherwise as they would have had 2 people splitting that capital rather than 1. Thats ok, she will run out of money in 5 years, but she might die before then anyway. If she needs care though... stuffed. They will eat whatever she has saved, and we might inherit a few bucks at the end. It will get taxed no doubt.
Thats alright, there is a G8 summit around the corner. No doubt the polis will fly their way around to gather shake hands and take some photos whilst calling it working. Microsoft teams not a thing for you guys? The people actually doing the jobs will likely be stuck in offices here trying to feed the 5000 with the equivalent of a loaf of bread and two fish.
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