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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-losing-faith-in-rudd/story-e6f...

The BCA asked for a "non volatile" tax and wanted the GST increased.

Sprint, that is utterly selfish pleading on behalf of a group of some of the richest people in Australia.

Now I will explain that.

In 2001-7 Costello cut income tax to such an extent company tax become much more significant a component of total tax revenues than ever before. These tax cuts were only possible because of the mining boom and follow huge cuts to those in the top income brackets when the GST was introduced, really massive overcompensation for the rich, massive undercompensation for the poor. So Costello piles more income tax cuts on top of that.

When the GFC hit and the mining boom collapsed--both prices and volumes exported plunged--and company tax cuts collapsed. This is the cause of most of the deficit forecast over the Forward Estimates years. Its called the Structural Budget Deficit, now a cash deficit.

Now, the BCA hombres were beneficiaries of all this income tax cutting. they know about the Structural Budget Deficit. In calling for the GST to be increased they are asking for the poorest to make up that structural deficit. Do you see that is utterly selfish pleading for a group of rich old guys? The GST is regressive--look up what that means.

I call for massive increases in the top bracket; add a superwealthy bracket, lower the top bracket and those who did so well out of Costello at the cost of the rest of us can start paying a fair share of tax! I would also close of all the loopholes these old guys and their accountants use to avoid paying tax!

Well as a lifelong Labor supporter, I admit to being a "True Believer" in 1972, when we saw Whitlam come in, after 23 years of Liberal rule, which, like in Howard's time, was a major beneficiary of an unprecedented resources boom, that they pretended was thanks to them.

They were a pretty poor lot of drones that were massively biased towards seeing privilege and old wealth being supported before, and above, all else, as well as having pathetic social values and no vision for the future.

Gough was great, but he had a party weighed down with far too many union hacks, and left wing ideologues, whose gross ineptitude saw them hand the libs, under Fraser, the opportunity to steal office.

Fraser was a heartless hack who attacked the poorest and most vulnerable in the community as the source of all our woes, and loved to attack spending on schools, hospitals, and welfare, as the bane of modern society.

Then we got Hawke, a patheticly vain and puffed up self promoter, whose populist agenda was primarily about serving himself, rather than what was best for the country.

Big Fanfare!! Along came the best PM in my lifetime, the "scumbag" scuttler himself, Paul Keating, whose good governance, vision, and action, set australia up to be perfectly positioned to fully exploit the coming boom times.

Then we had the lying Rodent squander the once in a lifetime opportunity to engage in truly meaningful Nation Building, and instead will go down in history as the king of Pork Barrelling, and middle class welfare spending. (as well as for shamelessly lying to one and all, including his long suffering treasurer, who could have done great things, IF he had not been lied to and cheated by the annoying "gnawing" one)

And now we have Hawke revisited, captain Kruddy.
I say Hawke revisited, except this version is a more pious, and more cowardly version of the self promoting PM model that Hawke pioneered.

So once more we see a Labor government which could be great, failing to even meet basic standards of competency.
Conroy's appallingly naive understanding of the telecommunications industry in general, plus his being wedded to an idioticly hamstrung ideology on how broadband should be supported in our country has not seen him rise to the challenge, but rather sink to the bottom of the trough of self indulgence that would have made a 1960's Liberal politician proud.

I shake my head in shame that I voted for this lot, I always had misgivings about Rudd, I mean anyone who promotes their personal religious beliefs goes massively down in my estimation, as religion is a supremely personal issue, and should always remain private, and should not dragged out as a cloak of moral superiority to wave in people's faces.

I think Labor has got talent, and a better long term vision for this country than the Libs, but unless they change their starting lineup dramatically, I will NOT be voting for them at the next election.

So, I just added this personal opinion to show that it is not only rusted on Libs and extremist right wingers that are disenchanted with Mr Rudd, and some of his more lacklustre lackeys.

Well golly gosh, look what crawled out of the woodwork, a beoworm.

Who would expect a personal opinion to hold any bias, certainly not soemone who championed the perilous pauline for so long, as well as just about all the ultra nationalist right wing claptrap you could think of, whilst still describing themselves as politically left wing,  , obviously they would be far too objective for that.

I know I will not be voting Labor at the next election if Rudd is at the helm, and I also can say the same for the Libs, if they stick with their current leader, a character that only the Libs could love, with possibly only Cwissy Pyne, or Tacky Tuckey as worse candidates.

Mozzy...  mmmm...  getting more poisonous with age and creeping senilty it seems.

I never championed Pauline actually just corrected the scurrilous lies told about her.  Not RW or ultranationalist actually...  just ask Skippy.

Preferences are mandatory old soak...  who ya gonna put last...  Labor or the Coalition?  You know it wont be Labor...  hence you will be voting Labor.

nope....  in the vast majority of seats that is the exact scenario..

So tell us all great mozzy...  is yours in the minority?