Indeed, I agree with you. Tax avoidance is rife, be nice if we tightened up regs and legislation and enforced it more than we have been.
If we're going to lower income tax more than we already have recently. Let's increase the tax-free threshold, that way everyone benefits from low income earners to high.
Who's excuses? You mean for immigration? I'm not for excessive, nor no immigration. I'm for a manageable number. Just that I think it's wrong to say it's the cause of the housing crisis.
Where did I mention crime?
From your child comment
Example:
The housing crisis is caused by supply and demand. Importing over 1000 people a day while building no houses will do that.
That's the thing, we've been building houses like crazy, and somewhat keeping up with demand, evidenced by the fact there are THOUSANDS EMPTY PROPERTIES. The price inflation no where near matches the utility of houses or demand if it were for living in only. People are expecting to make returns on the house. It's been commodified and tax incentivised and thus prices have gone way up. You're also ignoring the extremely obvious fact that the more people who are here, the more labour there is to produce houses. Having more or less people makes practically no difference to the rate we can build houses (all else being equal).
Funnily enough, Singapore is way, way more constrained with land for housing, but have an extremely strong public housing system, preventing most people from living in properties that have been made into investment vehicles.
Billionaires are not the problem.
Yes. Yes they are. They lobby for lower taxes (for them), avoid the taxes that already exist, making billions off the backs of other people's labour (you can't seriously suggest Gina Rhinehart has put in enough effort to warrant her billions). They own practically 80% of the politicians in parliament. And it's hilarious (and very upsetting) how many people are believing the bullshit they've been feeding us since forever.
The only solution to the housing crisis is making house investment less profitable, and make them somewhere to live, not somewhere to make a profit.
Good luck making your billions mate. It's DEFINITELY within most people's reach... lol /s
You're being duped friend. On average new arrivals to Australia are less likely to commit crimes.
The reason I say you're being duped, is that the rich and powerful want us fighting amongst ourselves, instead of noticing that they're screwing us over.
The housing crisis is being caused by massive asset inflation, we have literally tens of thousands of empty homes, and houses WAYYYYY more expensive than what they're actually worth.
Fuck Labor, fuck the LNP, but also fuck One Nation. They're trying to dupe you into believing all the problems in our society are being caused by migration, which just is plainly not true.
Get mad at the real enemy friend. Let's take back our country from the leeches at the top.
Join your union, join local community groups. The only way we take back power for the people is organising as a united working class against the leeches: the billionaires...
Sorry, I should have been clearer. People should still pay for the electricity, but at the very least the transmission and most of the generation should be publically owned and provided at cost
And energy retailers like some states have are so dumb. "Shopping around' for electricity when they're just slightly repacking the rate the transmission company sets is so stupid.
If I were to be a bit conspiratorial, perhaps this is just the Murdoch and other corporate media realising the Liberal/National Party brand is dead and are backing a new right-wing horse.
I do agree, it seems very quick, but I suppose a trickle often becomes a flood shrug¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry I should have been clearer. I agree the addiction is insidious.
However, making it prohibitively expensive I would argue is part of the reason smoking rates plummeted, as well as no indoor smoking and other smoking restrictions.
I'm only arguing that the illicit trade has been allowed to bloom, and that the black market could be massively curbed with actual enforcement.
And I'm being incredibly sarcastic because there's often someone coming out of the internet woodwork to say that taxing tobacco isn't effective.
That, there are people out there who think smoking is nice, which I think is really dumb, because the high really, really isn't worth the cancer.
I totally get it's very addictive and if you've started, it's very hard to stop, and I sympathize with those people. Only having a go at the people who argue for removing the high taxes, and that smoking is a "personal choice".
I think it's more a symptom of where right wing politics has gotten us. They're tired of the extremely tired status quo. People's real wages are going back. People don't see a real hope of having stable housing.
They're just being duped into anti-immigration and "small government" (actually the same size government but privatised) being the answer.
The Labor party are centre right. Let's be clear. And people are choosing One Nation because for some reason socialism is scary.
It's such a farce that we still allow the cabinet to unilaterally declare war without having a vote in parliament...