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@TMFScottP Tax payer funded CPI blip, not due to economic management!

CPI coming down looks good. Two things, though: - Down from 4.6% to 'only' 4.2% is still *far* too high. - Trimmed mean *rose* from 3.3% to 3.4%. More to do. The RBA won't be happy (though that doesn't mean they'll lift rates, necessarily).

@DrewPavlou Israel should have let checked their dingy for weapons and if none, let them go to Gaza. That would be an awesome remake of Hunger Games

This communist Aboriginal activist from the latest Israel Flotilla thing once called me on Facebook Messenger and threatened to bash me Sam Watson - great guy

@KatyKray73 @FL480 She’s an unlistenable twat!

MP Monique Ryan prioritises self-ID gender over biological sex in female spaces, harming women’s privacy, safety & fairness, then highlights trans victimhood. Her speech treats trans rights as human rights with zero equivalent emphasis on women’s. Sex is real. Women’s rights are human rights too. Prioritising one over the other isn’t compassion it’s erasure.

@aaronsmith You’re a POS

If losing were an Olympic sport, these three would be fighting over the podium.

@TruthHurtsNow_0 @miles_sack @AustralianLabor @MurrayWatt Hahaha

@Cosenti20N @miles_sack @AustralianLabor @MurrayWatt #LaborTrash

Do you agree that @AustralianLabor are leaning more towards being communists now than ever before ? #auspol

@GaryJohn_X @tonytardio x.com/texasgaslight5…

@GaryJohn_X @tonytardio Hahaha, where did the money come from? New York State Democrats Governor!

This is so dumb it’s embarrassing. This person is involved in making decisions for 7 million people . FFS

@ellensandell Ellen Mamdani, you people are completely ridiculous. Such uniformed and divisive and Mandami copycat politics. You’re all a disgrace!

At the same time that big banks like ANZ are posting $5.9 billion in profit, we have foodbanks in Victoria that have been forced to turn people away because demand is so high. It's time for the ultra rich corporations to finally pay their fair share!

@toy59496 @ByGeorge1984 I need a bottle of Vodka and magic mushrooms before listening to those Labor hacks!

The Chalmer Delusion: Outcome Bias & The Static Pie Fallacy afr.com//politics/fede… I encourage you all to look at the excellent interview of Jim Chalmers by Philip Coorey of the AFR. What struck me is that he appears genuinely sincere that he has a good policy and that it will work in delivering intergenerational equity and productivity. It reminded me of Oscar Wilde's letter when he was in jail... "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation". Jim Chalmers is not you, and he is certainly not me, so how can his mind arrive at such bizarre conclusions. I think the answer lies in the field of psychology: outcome bias combined with the static pie fallacy. Jim Chalmers sees the successful founder, investor or business owner - but not the thousands who failed, lost capital, went bankrupt or spent years building nothing. Capitalism’s winners are visible; its graveyards are invisible. Then comes the static pie fallacy: treating wealth as something merely to be redistributed rather than created through risk, incentives and relentless trial-and-error. He doesn't see that for the pie to grow, incentives must be rewarded, and that outcomes are destined to be fundamentally inequitable If the model works properly. However if the pie grows large enough we have enough wealth to bring up those at the bottom. But we will never be all the same, and rewarded the same, if we were that would be socialism. But he cannot see that, as trapped in his own psychology, Jim Chalmers feels taxing success is morally righteous rather than economically destructive. The problem is that innovation only exists because extreme rewards compensate for extreme failure. The argument is not one of intelligence, but of philosophy, and there is no common ground or resolution. This is a very old dilemma, and Thomas Kuhn would say Jim Chalmers and the business community have "incommensurable frameworks", and trapped in his own paradigm he is unable to view the world differently. What we see as an apparently rational disagreement is actually a failure of shared meaning rather than a failure of intelligence. The conclusion is sobering that the only way to resolve the problem is to remove Labour through the election box because the framework in which they make decisions is so foreign to economic reality that they will inevitably fail to interpret the world around them in a way that will grow the pie. They are prisoners of their own ideology. afr.com//politics/fede…

@DrCraigEmerson Yeah, because Labor just panders to its base on Western Sydney Emerson. You couldn’t give a flyer about Australian values or identity!

Racism should play no part in the next federal election, but it will thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/0…

@GregoryScaduto Start with making your own trillion then do what you want with it! Oh wait, it’s easier to tell others what to do with their money!

A letter to Elon Musk on what to do with a trillion dollars.

@QuentinDempster @DavidPocock @TurnbullMalcolm So they should keep pretending NOT to be a party so that the facade of independence is power right Dempster!

Dear ‘teals’, independent MHRs and senators @DavidPocock. Ignore @TurnbullMalcolm. Don’t even think of forming a new political party. Remember what happened to the ‘keep-the-bastards-honest’ Democrats? Your power is your independence.

@PatMcGorry If you believe in selling a pile of shit as rich mud cake, you do you!

Labor’s tax reforms need ordinary language to get the message across theage.com.au/politics/feder… is the “backlash” not largely a media creation? These changes benefit the vast majority of people esp young people.

@AlanKohler @abcnews Zero respect Kohler

This week's column for @abcnews in which I explain why Angus Taylor's immigration/housing policy would not result in a cut to immigration and suggest that migration should be run by an independent body like the Reserve Bank. abc.net.au/news/2026-05-2…

@MarkoMatvikov What a mess! I lived through the Hawke/Keating years and had a small business from 1988 to 2000. It was always hard under Labor, especially state VIC Labor at the time. Then we had the Libs and things were great. But then, Rudd/Gillard and now, these Bs are the worst of the lot

Labor clearly can’t defend why its CGT changes extend beyond property if the intent is to remove tax incentives for property. But I’m seeing a new wave of defence being that a) they only apply to the ‘wealthy’ and b) ‘small businesses’ are exempt – so let me tell you why these are categorically wrong. • The ‘wealth’ data is fundamentally flawed: It’s based on single year transaction data, rather than lifetime earnings. About 90% of Aussie taxpayers earn under 135k per year, so when an investor sells a long-held asset, that single transaction for a single year pushes them into the ‘top 10%’. This doesn’t mean they’re in the top 10% of wealthiest Aussies – it simply means that for that specific year, they earned over 135k, which could be off the back of decades of earning much less per year. • The small business concessions aren’t indexed: The $2m threshold for annual turnover and $6m threshold for asset value haven’t increased for almost 20 years (a problem that extends to many of our taxes). This means modest family businesses are being dragged into a tax regime originally designed for much larger operations – specifically, where it was designed to exempt 95% of businesses entities in 2007, it now only exempts about 60% in 2026 (and rapidly shrinking). • The path to building wealth is being cut off: Financial independence is rarely achieved by earning a wage and spending it. For people to become comfortable or modestly wealthy, they generally need to save and invest the wages they earn. Enforcing a minimum 30% floor rate on all forms of capital gains, even for people whose income puts them below the 30% marginal tax bracket, makes it harder for wage earners to build wealth. The bottom line is that this budget suppresses aspiration and socio-economic mobility – and I don’t think that’s what Aussies voted for at the last election.

@TimRichardsonMP You and your party want more taxes to grow government while you destroys investment and aspiration, the LNP are sensible, want smaller government and individual autonomy. You talk about women in politics but destroy women’s right. Shame on you bastards!

Such an honour to hear how Labor will invest in jobs and apprentices under Premier Jacinta Allan leadership! 🙌 Such a privilege to join with our outstanding leaders Sonya Kilkenny MP and Jodie Belyea MP who are the best at serving their communities! ❤️ And it was inspiring to hear how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will build more homes, while making it easier to achieve the Australian dream - more young Australians bring able to buy a home of their own! 🏡

@TimRichardsonMP How’d you vote on euthanasia by Telehealth? You lying evil bastards!