Well since the backpackers have stopped 'takin their jawbz' our trusty dole bludgers have less excuses to continue their parasitic ways.
But you wont see these lazy scum getting off their arses to look after themselves for a while, not while we have cradle to grave dole for the filthy freeloading carntz.
The irony is we need the tax to pay for the freeloading filth, but once we take it, the backpackers don't come for the work.
DON’T get used to cheap strawberries. Australia could be facing a looming fruit shortage due to the “disastrous” backpacker tax, South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has warned.
The controversial tax, introduced in the 2014-15 Federal Budget and set to take effect from 1 January 2017, would slug working holiday visa holders with 32.5 per cent tax on every dollar they earn.
The government appears likely to junk the widely unpopular measure after a review by the Department of Agriculture received more than 1700 submissions.
But despite Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce hinting a decision was coming within the next few weeks, Senator Xenophon warns the damage has already been done due to the “social media grapevine”.
Farmers around the country who rely on seasonal workers have already reported a sharp drop-off in the number of applicants, many of whom have opted to travel to New Zealand instead, where they would be taxed at around half the proposed 32.5 per cent rate.
“Normally by now, we would have about 1500 applicants but, as of today, we only have 600 applicants, then only a third who apply will accept a job,” Reid Fruits owner Tim Reid told The Mercury.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/thousands-of-tonnes-of-fruit-to-rot-o... The government isnt even going to tax the backpackers are they? They are trying to back out of it.
I am unemployed. Today I slept in until about lunch time. Then I had some breaky bongs and got super smashed. And then I went to my local public golf course and had a round of stoned golf. It was pretty decent day. What did you do at work anyway? How was your day?
I have been on strike since these god damn gooback European backpackers have taken our jobs. And Chinese guest workers. I like picking fruit but I can never get any work in fruit season because of the god damn backpackers. So there are actually jobs this year? That is awesome. Are you sure? they havent even started taxing the backpackers yet have they? Sure this isnt some bullcrap propaganda to help the government back out of the backpacker tax? Like how US farmers claim that they cant get Americans to pick asparagus? So they need Mexicans? How did we survive when we didnt have so many backpackers and guest workers is what I wonder. I hear that Malcolm Turnbull is bringing a heap of South American refugees to Australia. Maybe he will get some Mexicans too. ( what a $%$%! South Americans? )
A lot of old people used to pick fruit back in the day. The first time I did it there was an old guy there that in Young that told me he had been coming to pick cherries every year since he retired for extra money for him and his wife. But he ended up leaving that year because the Australian pickers were given all the crap hard to pick cherry trees and these bused in Asians ( think they were some kind of refugees ) were given all the easy to pick rows. I think he may have been given some kind of grant or something to give these refugees work. I read that Barnaby Joyce is hinting at some kind of backpacker tax break for farmers... Isnt that great?