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@saintitchief @MikeBates Absolutely nothing worth saying. Got it. If you want to know about inflation, look at gold. Thats the true barometer, and its up 150% under Trump, and rising.

@theMagicNorman @MikeBates oh you’re like a real retard. say less.

10 years ago Trump said: “We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt.” He said he’d do that. The national debt has more than doubled since then.

@saintitchief @MikeBates You're debt repayments alone will soon hit $2.5 trillion a year, with loss of the petrodollar. You can probably blame loss of the petrodollar on Biden for sanctions on Russia, but the bottom line is you'll be lucky to keep inflation below 30% by 2030.

@theMagicNorman @MikeBates you keep bringing up the debt fuck the debt tell me about that 9% inflation

@saintitchief @MikeBates Ending wars? Are you seriously pushing that line? Lowering oil prices? Are you making this stuff up?

@theMagicNorman @MikeBates closing the border bad? tax cuts bad? ending of wars bad? cooling inflation bad? lowering oil prices bad? just shut up already

@saintitchief @MikeBates I'm not a yank, and never vote left, but Trump has not done a good job. He's talked a great game, but got very little right in either term

@theMagicNorman @MikeBates there is a difference its called 9% inflation you retard

@saintitchief @MikeBates Trump increased the debt by $8 trillion before Biden was even in power, and another $3 trillion in the 18 months since. They might have different rhetoric, but fiscally theres no difference between Trump and Biden. Drop the hero worship and actually look at what's going on

@MikeBates could it be because biden printed money to the point where we had the highest inflation numbers in the history of the country you dumb fag?

@ESPNcricinfo It makes a mockery of the sport that we've got international cricket missing its best players because they've got club games on

Josh Inglis will lead a severely under-strength Australia side in Pakistan as Pat Cummins and Travis Head are also missing due to their involvement in the IPL playoffs espncricinfo.com/story/mitchell…

@BitcoinNewsCom @bitbrainers They don't need to. If you can control the users, thats controlling crypto.

@bitbrainers That is correct. No one can actually control bitcoin

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@thamoonman_ I can agree on that. Most of the initiatives government run aren't inherently bad, the issue I and many others have are in the how they are run

@theMagicNorman that's fine, so we simply reform the NDIS. Better things are possible

I would rather fund the NDIS because I'm not a sociopath and I would rather have a safety net if I or anyone I cared about became disabled

@thamoonman_ Again, character limits make it difficult to fully explain my position, but I didn't mean there should be no form of disability support, but we can't run an open chequebook to be subsidised indefinitely by the taxpayer as we do now.

@theMagicNorman This is simply fallacious. Individuals have received multiple tax cuts over the last decade, and the suggestion that the NDIS isn't a worthwhile endeavour is simply an expression of your personal opinion.

@dinlare @thamoonman_ I didn't say each participant received $140k, I said the budget averages out to $140k per participant. How is that justifiable?

@theMagicNorman @thamoonman_ Each participant does not receive $140,000. Allocated funding depends on need. A participant with high needs will receive a larger budget, and a participant with low needs will receive a smaller budget.

@thamoonman_ One Nation fraud is hypothetical. If it happens, we'll see how its received. The hypothetical 'One Nation might do worse' doesn't justify the real and routine fraud we see from Labor. Please justify how $140k per recipient on the NDIS per year is reasonable cost.

@theMagicNorman these are all overplayed, overblown, and overall non-issues. classic conservative scaremongering nonsense yet you'll look the other way when One Nation does worse

@thamoonman_ Additional tax making life harder for every day people, only to subsidise additional government waste, like the NDIS scams. People might have a little bit more time for excessive tax if it was used to fund worthwhile endeavours. The issue is, it isn't.

@theMagicNorman house prices are bad. more at 7. what's that got to do with the NDIS

@thamoonman_ Stamp duty on the average house now exceeding a years median income? Is that a phantom?

@theMagicNorman you're irritated at a phantom. much more objectionable things to be mad at

@TruthHurts2223 @indexnforgetit Not really, I'm doing well financially, but things just aren't comparable. When I bought my first house in 2020, the mortgage was $380 a week. That same house bought today would be $1200 a week. Costs have, at minimum, doubled in that time, wages up by 10%. Thats 5 years

@indexnforgetit I'm in the top 5 percent income bracket in my state. I pack my own lunches. I cook my own meals. I drive a 5 year old jeep. These kids are poor because they are incapable of making choices that aren't retarded

The "packing your lunch" debate is a financial literacy test It's the marshmallow test for adults... and 70% on this app fail If you pass, you're almost guaranteed financial success at some point in your life If you fail, I am 100% certain you will never achieve any sort of financial success and will struggle with things like "payments" and rent prices your entire life

@TheKouk The rampant poverty in New Zealand due to having zero resources, extreme isolation and a low population may have something to do with that. In Australia, we are extremely fortunate to have the resources we have. The government didn't contribute to that

Capital gains tax debate: Australia vs New Zealand NZ has had zero CGT for decades. I wonder why there are 675,000 New Zealanders living in Australia & only 75,000 Australians living in New Zealand?

@thamoonman_ Why would I feel guilty? I'm irritated at the government extorting tens of thousands of dollars from my income to support fraud and corruption. You would be too if you contributed.

@theMagicNorman "emotional appeal" = argument that made you feel guilty so you got mad.

@thamoonman_ NDIS costs us $100 billion a year when you include all costs and welfare payments associated- 11% of all tax revenue generated, or over $140k per recipient. How are we justifying $140k of spending per recipient, per year?

@thamoonman_ Retarded emotional appeal with absolutely zero logic behind it and no more credible than the 'so you don't want to have roads or hospitals' response you get when you criticise government tax waste