Saint City PD

How to fix Australia's budget in 30 minutes. I played around with new game that allows you to take the role of Australia's Treasurer. My philosophy: Shift the tax burden off income, work and production and onto unproductive speculation and rents, specifically in land and housing. Channel capital into factories, industry and manufacturing. Make Australia a productive superpower again. Key moves: - Income tax cuts for every bracket, weighted toward low and middle earners. - LNG export levy, 2% federal mineral resource levy, PRRT effective rate up to 45%. Qatar exports the same gas as us and pulls in $40-50 bn a year. Fix this to pay for income tax cuts. - Broad-based land value tax (0.25%) with the family home completely carved out. Kills idle land banking. - Negative gearing eliminated. Dead money. I want capital building factories, not flipping houses. - Tobacco and alcohol excise slashed. Current rates hand the market to Middle Eastern organised crime gangs and triggered the firebombing epidemic in Sydney and Melbourne. - Defence to 2.5% of GDP. Infrastructure to $25 bn. High-speed rail down the east coast, metros in every capital city. Nobody should need a car to get around any of the 5 major cities. - NDIS nationalised. Save $20 bn without cutting a single dollar from genuinely disabled Australians by ripping out the legions of shonky providers running mafia operations on taxpayer money. - Public service trimmed from 180,000 to 150,000. - Immigration and Home Affairs lifted to $8 bn — harden the border, deport illegal residents. No cuts to pension, welfare, health, education or aged care. Politically untouchable. Result: Budget surplus, lower debt interest payments, tax cuts for every Australian, and capital flowing into productive enterprise instead of unproductive speculation. Beautiful vision. Make Australia a manufacturing and infrastructure superpower.

You mean to tell me that Thomas Massie got less votes in this Primary Election than the last primary election when over 45,000 ish new voters showed up to vote in this years primary? Ed Gallrein received 10,854 “mail in” ballots votes tonight alone. Thomas Massie lost by 10,280 votes.