Tony Abbott says something right for a change!!
“This is a bad tax,” the Opposition Leader said during a visit to Tasmania.
“We already have a profits-based tax; it’s called company tax. We already have a way of ensuring that the people get value for non-renewable resources; it’s called royalties.
“We don’t need any new taxes, we don’t need any different taxes, we don’t need anything which kills the mining boom.”
PR NEWSWIRE: After some weekend deliberation over a bottle of scotch in a scientific setting, Tony Abbot amends list of things he “doesn’t believe”:
Sorry mate. But some things you are free to “believe” or “not believe”. These are things like your religion (for you, apparently in the “believe” category, at least on paper). But when it comes to science. Either get a qualification and debate the science in the right forum, or shut the fuck up.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner did acknowledge that a “tiny proportion” of the money might be spend overseas, by expatriates
OK, this has really got my goat people.
Every time I read about the aussie stimulus package, someone complains that the money might be spent overseas (e.g. like mine), and politicians have to justify it (even if they know better). Well get this:
1. You only get the money if you paid Australian Taxes. I paid my taxes just as much as everyone else and I’m not even in the country to use the benefit of any of the services this money buys me (e.g. medical care). I’m not asking for my tax back – so shut up about my stimulus money.
2. THIS IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE YOU SPEND THE MONEY. Got it? GLOBAL PROBLEM. It didn’t start in Australia, and it won’t end there. I spent my stimulus money in the United States of America, which probably did a lot more to help the world economy (and thus Australia’s) then spending it in Australia.
So just shut up, buy a plasma TV, and be happy. OK?