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@SimonCotter62 Great for those with discretionary spending capacity. They can adjust their spending if necessary. Bloody awful for those without such capacity…

The best thing the govt could do is raise the GST to 15%. Tax spending not saving and wealth creation. Simple.

@Rajjah @IMAO_ Could well be about how hot she is. I recall a heated argument in the early 2000s about whether not Diane Kruger was hot enough to play “the face that launched a 1,000 ships”. After all, her legendary beauty was central to the story…

@IMAO_ I wonder what percentage of people dont want Helan to be black vs those that just dont think Lupita Nyongo is hot enough But then we run into a trickier racial issue of what white guys find attractive. Would Natalie Emmmanuel be as controversial? She and many others are mixed

Interestingly, Xena Warrior Princess had a black Helen of Troy thirty years ago, but race wasn’t a big deal back in the 90s.

@IFM_Economist @TaxPawspective 48% since 2020. Funny, isn’t it? About the time knee jerk panic from governments globally took interest rates to 0% and pumped cash into economies. Yet it is all the fault of negative gearing, discounted CGT and Boomer greed…

If dwelling prices fell 10% nationally we'd fall back to a level seen in early 2025, a fall of 20% would be early 2023, Dwelling prices rose 48% since 2020. So what is the big deal? Unless someone can show me that this near 50% gain brought Australia unmatched prosperity that offsets the societal and economic damage that making household formation so difficult for FHBs why does it matter so much. It would actually be the one thing that unambiguously improves housing affordability. It might also discourage negative gearing and make more space for FHB in the market.

@GBX_Press Can’t understand the number of people believing this bogus translation. Don’t you have any level of critical thinking? 🤔

The Prime Minister of Italy: As a woman and a mother, I cannot stand with those who kill innocent children. While some Muslim countries support the killers of Palestinians, if they were to unite and halt all trade with Israel, it wouldn't last a week.

@AshPolitik @GemmaTognini @JEChalmers @AlboMP So deducting your legitimate expenses from your income is thievery? You have no credibility when it comes to financial matters.

@GemmaTognini @JEChalmers @AlboMP Negative gearing is the height of tax payer thievery

Turns out nobody likes thieves and liars @JEChalmers @AlboMP you two are the worst Australia has ever seen. Grifting, greedy, thieving liars

@larter_stephen He’s a journalist. Not an economist.

Alan Kholer is recognised as a leading economist his knowledge certainly left Speersy speechless. He single handily just blew up LNP and No Nations immigration policy by telling the actual truth about housing and migration. Think he should be a permanent panellist. #auspole

@Tank9999 That is the stupidest take I’ve seen. They are affected for the rest of their lives…

#auspol #insiders 9 out of 10 people under 35 in Australia do NOT own Investment Properties or Shares so will not be affected by the changes to Capital Gains Tax

@angelar68197975 What changed between the election last year and this budget in relation to housing? Nothing. They should have had the courage to announce improvements.

Why has changing your mind when facts change for the betterment of the many — A bad thing In the past,taxes favoured the wealthy The discount was first intended for stock markets, then it crashed & went into properties

@ausstockchick All for the sake of a 2% drop in house values… The people are being conned. Something had to be done following the surge in values due to poor Covid policies. But severe temporary measures could do that. They have now embedded permanent change that ultimately impacts young.

Boomers selling houses have made millions on the old rules. Stock investors over 40 have made millions on the old rules. But investors under 30 now are going to find it incredibly difficult to make millions on the new rules. Albo just created a generational divide by trying to fix the current one. #auspol

@TigerAncient @JohnnyLydon Really? Read the OP and the first paragraph of your response to the OP… Back to my point - in response to the second line if your initial post - super is why GDP % is 2.5% and falling. By the time today’s younger workers have 40+ years of 12.5% super, it falls to under 1%.

@JeffTorbek @JohnnyLydon Firstly, superannuation was never part of this discussion. You have just now mentioned it for the first time. Superannuation in most cases will not avoid the pension either. Most people’s super will go into paying off their mortgage and then they will require the pension.

Retirees currently pay no tax on their super and get all sorts of taxpayer funded benefits. How much more do they expect.

@TigerAncient @JohnnyLydon So you dismiss the GDP aspect that highlights the great benefits of superannuation in reducing the burden of aged pensions to a third of comparable nations? You are fixated on a problem that just doesn’t exist.

@JeffTorbek @JohnnyLydon It’s not just part of it, it’s the largest part of it. You have lumped all welfare together. I have been more specific. You can argue that health spending is bigger but the people that are on the pension are probably the largest users of that system anyway.

@TigerAncient @JohnnyLydon Social security and welfare is OZ’s biggest expense. Aged pension is just a part of that. OZ spends 2.5% of GDP on aged pension. And that is falling. Average of OECD countries - that also have similar age profiles - is 7.5%. Aged pension is not a major issue for OZ.

@JeffTorbek @JohnnyLydon It’s the government’s single biggest expense. That’s a fact. Comparing us to countries with different age distributions is not sensible. We have an ageing population. These tax changes will make people invest less and thus become more reliant on the pension.

@BladeoftheS This is why the right hasn’t been able to get past 30-35% despite a resurgence in western nation. Despite the growing appeal of the right, at the core of right wing parties there remain a large body of the racist and bigoted.

The UK's biggest problem is Islamophobia not Antisemitism. No one will even mention this disgusting performance by Tommy Robinson. If it had been antisemitic the Police would have charged the stage.

@TigerAncient @JohnnyLydon The pension in Australia is a relatively small expense. Much lower than other OECD nations as a percentage of GDP.

@JohnnyLydon Retirees paid taxes all their life. In fact the tax rates were much higher in the past. You now want them to pay more tax? Why? If they have saved money and now don’t get the pension, they should be congratulated and not punished. The pension is the government’s biggest expense.

@TheKouk Wouldn’t be a problem if wages kept pace with inflation. Doesn’t happen. So peg it to AWE instead… Not difficult… 🤔

If the indexation of income tax scales was in place now, given inflation is 4.6% there would be huge income tax cuts coming. This would stimulate household spending & add significantly to inflation. Crazy ah? RBA would be forced to hike interest rates aggressively ICYMI

@P_Bots @pav_akhtar @TheScotsman Not sure being concerned about non citizens on temporary visas representing citizens in parliament is necessarily “anti-immigration”. Doubt there are many countries in the world that allow such a thing. That is the concern for many.

@JeffTorbek @pav_akhtar @TheScotsman Anti-LGBTQIA+ and anti-immigrant rhetoric come from the same people, who don't realise that LGBTQIA+ and even recent immigrants care so deeply about Scotland that they wish to proactively make Scotland a better place... So they 'have' to resort to making violent threats.

Trans MSP Q Manivannan escorted through Holyrood by security over safety concerns trib.al/EvMP8ax

@pav_akhtar @TheScotsman Seems to me much of the criticism is about his status as a foreigner on a temporary visa. Not his LGBTQI+ status. But that would negate the argument that the critics are just bigots… 🤔

@TheScotsman This is sad to see. There is still some way to go to root out anti-LGBT bigotry in the UK. All power to Dr. Manivannan who has come across as a pillar of strength and integrity this week.

@AshPolitik @Lisa9Sophia @OneNationAus Not me, champ…

@JeffTorbek @Lisa9Sophia @OneNationAus Parties been around since the 90s. They are replacing the LNP votes, complete swap. Ive said, ON is the new opposition. You will win swag of L/NP seats for sure.

The orange wave is just getting started Next stop 40% @OneNationAus

@Q2Quokka Still a big result for a lunatic fringe party that got only 6.4% of primary vote in 2025… Be dangerous to just shrug it off… 🤔

So here's what Pauline doesn't want you to notice Despite this garbage SMS poll, her vote is still trending down, all other polls show One Nation has peaked

@AshPolitik @Lisa9Sophia @OneNationAus Yeah… Cos that’s heaps better for a party that polled under 3% a short while ago…

@Lisa9Sophia @OneNationAus credible non sms polls will have ON down under 25%