Monthly Archives: December 2014

Scumbag government announces it will move to remove GST free threshold on BOXING DAY!

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While everyone is busy with the festive season, the dark powers whom are in charge of Australia have unveiled a shocker of a policy…

Already proven to be detrimental for government revenue, in a bid to do nothing other than to protect uncompetitive economic rent seekers, the Abbott government wants to remove the $1000 GST free threshold for importing goods from overseas.

They’ve already ensured Australia is the most unaffordably expensive country to live in, with the world’s biggest housing bubble – despite having the lowest population density of any country on Earth, and now this? What a bunch of corrupt scumbags! They will not stop until they bleed us all dry..

University reforms “unfair to students”

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From a speech by Professor Stephen Parker…

They emerged as a budget measure, but they won’t save the tax-payer money in any real sense.

A fundamental feature of HECS is that the Government forwards all the money upfront to the University. So if fees go up by more than the cuts, the Commonwealth shells out more from day one. Default will rise. More students will work overseas – legitimately, this is not evasion – and so only through some arcane aspect of accounting standards can this even look as if it is a savings measure.

This isn’t a savings measure: it is ideology in search of a problem.

But it gets worse. Bizarrely there is no guarantee that a single cent of the extra money will go into the student’s course: it could go into research, infrastructure, paying for past follies or current cock-ups. It’s tempting, believe me, I make them too, but it’s wrong.

The internal equity aspect of the policy design is laughable: why should the second poorest quartile of students subsidise the lowest quartile?

Australia out of the top 10 on the corruption index

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For the first time, Australia is not in the top 10 cleanest countries in Transparency International’s corruption perception index. It’s not surprising that Australia has slipped. Barely a day goes by without newspaper reports of corruption – in political parties, trade unions, sports bodies, companies.

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/australias-slide-into-corruption-must-be-stopped-20141204-11zso4.html

With nearly all member of parliament rorting the property market with negative gearing and capital gains exemptions, while keeping the rorts in place and destroying our economy in the process – is it any wonder? Not to mention all the public pork money for infrastructure projects, healthcare and education which is funnelled into private hands – like Tony Abbott’s medical research fund, designed solely to sift taxpayer money to big pharma in the US.