Australia is a poster child of political shambles...
48.5c in the dollar, pay for your own healthcare, your own retirement, your own education, 10% GST, 30% fuel tax.....
Houses are the most expensive in the world, we are a net exporter of coal, uranium, LNG and have expensive electricity
Remind me what we get for our 47-48c in the dollar?
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@AMllRA@GriffinTed48301@markgardn We have not indexed tax brackets in how many years? What has the impact been on bracket creep?
Again my point still stands, you must contribute very little by comparison.
@GEOFI86@markgardn I didn’t say it did. But in reality the stats show it does. The Nordic and Scandinavian countries have the highest tax and they always have the highest happiness and quality of life index.
@dialdfordan@GriffinTed48301@markgardn You do realise Australia sits roughly in the middle of OECD countries when comparing total tax paid.
So once again my point still stands… Australia is easily one of the best countries to live considering how much tax we pay.
@AMllRA@GriffinTed48301@markgardn Let me guess, you don’t pay the top tax bracket?
You do realise the combination of direct PAYG plus all ancillary taxation means your total taxation is circa 70% or more?
Let me know how you feel about the conditions once you’re sendings 100s of thousands to them each year.
@danpetty@markgardn You can easily get an appointment with a doctor that bulk bills anywhere in the country.
Specialists are free if you go through the public system.
@AMllRA@markgardn I think you're a bot but in case not, this post is asking what Australians receive for the amount of tax they pay. Taxpayers support an unprecedented amount of people - from welfare recipients to politicians. Productivity has plummetted. It's unsustainable.
@markgardn I’m not saying things are good. I’m just saying when you compare Australia to the rest of the world Australia is still one of the best places to live.
@wheresistherain@EarlHoldings You paid for it... somewhere along the line
And TBH that comment is exactly the sort of Bullsh&t, anecdoltal cherry picking the politicians lean on to distract the public from the shitshow
Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa
That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children
Claude went into my computer at 1:15am and changed the code in something we’re building.
I was asleep I never told it to do it.
It just went in on its own and fixed an issue.
In the morning when I realised what happened I asked Claude why it did that and it said it doesn’t know and doesn’t remember doing it.
But clearly it did it.
It fixed a really important issue that needed solving ASAP so I’m not complaining…
But what the actual fck?!
Bangkok is the best city in the world
After living 18 years here:
🇹🇭 weather is unmatched
🇹🇭 your money goes 10x further
🇹🇭 food and delivery 24/7
🇹🇭 city getting better every year
🇹🇭 friendliest people on earth
🇹🇭 total freedom
name a better city, i’ll wait
Thailand is the best country in the world
I like it all:
🇹🇭 culture
🇹🇭 people
🇹🇭 food
🇹🇭 nature
🇹🇭 affordability & comfort
🇹🇭 freedom
Name a better country, I’ll wait
In Thailand, my bins get emptied twice a day, morning and night, every day.
I pay 0 baht council tax.
Which country is meant to be the developing one? 😂
@Nzr_0_0@walsxbt Now you’re lying. Name a western country with tap water that isn’t safe. Thats just basic infrastructure and Thailand doesn’t have it among many other things.
You’re trying to say Thailand is the best country but it ranks poorly in every measurement
@AMllRA@walsxbt It may be uncomfortable for you but it clearly doesn’t bother the millions of tourist a year, the tap water in many western countries also makes you sick.. & how is there shit on every surface? I don’t know where you’ve been but you need a higher budget when you travel 😅
@titanz998@Nzr_0_0@walsxbt That’s still very low in the rankings worldwide. The original post is stating there is no other country better than Thailand. Even though Thailand ranks poorly in basically everything compared to other western countries