Topic: Australia's GST

Offline rjhall01

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GST (Goods and Services Tax) is currently 10% in Australia. This overall has its benefits such as easy mathematical calculations but, this has led the government to increase taxes in other areas. This has had some negative effects on Australia such as selling off our power grids and taxing more and more things such as divorce. I believe that the government should raise the GST to 20% and remove some of the fees that are affecting the less wealthy (e.g reduce/remove personal income tax for people on minimum wage). What do you think the Government should do?

Posted: July 09, 2015, 09:45:46 pm

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Take every banker, politician, stock trader, economist, corporate raider, etc and hang them from the nearest power pole. Rinse and repeat, then rebuild the financial system from the ground up in a equitable, fair way that prevents greed and capitalism.


Reply #1 Posted: July 10, 2015, 08:45:42 am

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I'm of the opposite view, I think GST should be reduced, and taxes increased in other areas to compensate. To give NZ products and services more of a level playing field to overseas ones.

 

Reply #2 Posted: July 10, 2015, 08:53:23 am

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Quote from Lias: July 10, 2015, 08:45:42 am
Take every banker, politician, stock trader, economist, corporate raider, etc and hang them from the nearest power pole. Rinse and repeat, then rebuild the financial system from the ground up in a equitable, fair way that prevents greed and capitalism.

You commie!


Reply #3 Posted: July 10, 2015, 08:54:49 am

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No, not a communist.

I've always had a bit of a socialist streak thou, and as I get older I'm increasingly opposed to the raw naked greed of capitalism. Watching the rich and the corporations literally buy the laws they want isn't helping.




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Quote from Lias: July 10, 2015, 09:17:25 am
No, not a communist.

I've always had a bit of a socialist streak thou, and as I get older I'm increasingly opposed to the raw naked greed of capitalism. Watching the rich and the corporations literally buy the laws they want isn't helping.
Can confirm. Is communist.

Reply #5 Posted: July 10, 2015, 02:34:59 pm
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Who me?

Reply #6 Posted: July 10, 2015, 02:52:00 pm

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Quote from Lias: July 10, 2015, 08:45:42 am
Take every banker, politician, stock trader, economist, corporate raider, etc and hang them from the nearest power pole. Rinse and repeat, then rebuild the financial system from the ground up in a equitable, fair way that prevents greed and capitalism.
This is just...genius!

Reply #7 Posted: July 11, 2015, 07:58:59 pm

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Quote from rjhall01: July 11, 2015, 07:58:59 pm
Quote from Lias: July 10, 2015, 08:45:42 am
Take every banker, politician, stock trader, economist, corporate raider, etc and hang them from the nearest power pole. Rinse and repeat, then rebuild the financial system from the ground up in a equitable, fair way that prevents greed and capitalism.
This is just...genius!

No it's not, it's dreaming.

There can never be a fair and equitable financial system that prevents greed and capitalism. So might as just make the best of what we have.

Reply #8 Posted: July 12, 2015, 02:16:31 pm

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Quote from Plain old Spacemonkey: July 12, 2015, 02:16:31 pm
Quote from rjhall01: July 11, 2015, 07:58:59 pm
Quote from Lias: July 10, 2015, 08:45:42 am
Take every banker, politician, stock trader, economist, corporate raider, etc and hang them from the nearest power pole. Rinse and repeat, then rebuild the financial system from the ground up in a equitable, fair way that prevents greed and capitalism.
This is just...genius!

No it's not, it's dreaming.

There can never be a fair and equitable financial system that prevents greed and capitalism. So might as just make the best of what we have.
Yeah, there never can be a 'perfect' system and your right, we should make the best of the situation :)

Reply #9 Posted: July 14, 2015, 08:34:22 pm
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