Well - it's a pretty simple equation.... if it 'saves' money somewhere, then clearly that money must be going somewhere before the savings are put in place..... therefore it is a handout to those who least need it.
Bleed me a river about the 'mums and pops' investors who manage to sneak in under the corporates ...... there is not one argument left on this Earth to support both negative gearing for business and concessional tax on sale. Business must pay its way.
I slugged Chim Jalmers yesterday about his empty-headed comment that somehow 'baby boomers' were the root of all evil.... well, Jim - we are more than happy to remove your fancy salary and perks and super and make of you just another struggling baby boomer in retirement..... no problem, son. Twenty years in the gulag should struggle your thinking into the correct channels.... your kind of non-thinking must be isolated from the general community lest you infect weak minds....
This country desperately needs a new form of government - one where they cop $100k pa and costs on approved application, and such... and no amazing super fund funded by treasury at an exorbitant rate.
Let's see how many want the job then ................ you never met a poor retired politician...... azs someone said - we shouldn't be looking at the rich people who go into politics, but at the poor people who do that and come out rich. And all politicians and family must be strictly banned from participating in any 'ventures' funded by government...... how many have bought up packets of shares in the submarines repairs etc facilities already?