freediver wrote on Jul 22
nd, 2017 at 9:30pm:
Quote:that's why you used their figures to try and argue it was more like 100%
No I didn't John. Not sure how you could misunderstand something so simple.
Again, do you have a point to make?
Quote:no, I'm holding the govt. to their word. I'd prefer we didn't pay tax on petrol. But that's never going to happen.
You want to subsidise road transport? What should we tax instead to raise the revenue?
We don't tax anything to raise the revenue - we compel governments to live within their means and stop wasting ours............. and to focus entirely on their job and not their 'business opportunities' and self-aggrandisement in many ways, including the utter waste of time and money in paying their mates big dollars to sit on some 'commission' or other and suck on the public teat.
I've said it before - since the violent insertion of the GST, State governments have seen more billions pass through their sleazy hands than ever in their history - and the results are piss-poor to negligible, and in many ways negative to the well-being of the people, and all they ever do is cry poor. At the same time state governments have considered their magnificent handling of all this cash as a good excuse to line their own pockets mightily for life, and in more ways than one.
All that money should be going into OUR infrastructure, such as roads, rail, power, gas and so forth - not into their pet projects or nice little earners set up for the mates and cronies, and not into their stupid privatisation ventures that cost us an arm and a leg... we pay three times for toll roads - fuel etc taxes, GST, tolls + GST - where are our roads, Gladys?
(in her mate's bank accounts)....