mellie wrote on Feb 11^th, 2011 at 5:01pm:

Still waiting Buzz

For someone who accused me of not paying tax in Australia and not caring about the place.

You live in Australia, there is a tax to help re-build the country.

How much will you pay?

Look, both sides aren't perfect, are not unknown for their treachery grubbery, back-stabbing and political point-scoring,... though I think, this Labor government has been particularly negligent/hopeless  where it counts most.

You name it, they have failed to deliver....  at least Libs managed the economy, this and deliver disaster relief in a timely fashion, without turning it into an opportunistic tax-grabbing exercise.

5 years later, and Anna Bligh still hadn't completed delivering relief to victims of Cyclone Larry,(700,000 left over) ... preferring to sit on the hoard and collect the interest.

I find Gillards management of recent disasters, particularly sinister and bothersome.

And like so many charities are saying.... this will deter people from donating, because in their eyes, they already have, and by forced tax..

Like my mother said, at the end of this, she's looking at having paid about $2000 in tax, (as tiny as this seems), but had Gillard not imposed the forced-charity  tax, she would have probably donated twice as much.

Charity should begin at home, not with our government opportunistically tax- gouging victims for their own relief.

At least Howard managed Cyclone Larry, without imposing a tax, however small on the middle class, and poor victims of natural disaster.





You name it, Labor have failed to deliver where it matters most...even when they had a majority government.


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I just spoke to my mother, and it seems, she will be paying about $3800 over 12 months.

I will add, she donated $5000 to cyclone Larry.

Needless to say, she's not a fan of forced-charity, this and based on principle alone she wont be donating this year given she feels she's already been taxed her donation.

Under this government, she's been less forthright with her cash, this and distrusts their capacity to deliver on account of how badly the funding was misappropriated last time.

Aussie wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 5:30pm:

mellie wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 5:54pm:

mellie wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 5:54pm:



100 points Mellie!

In a nutshell this is Buzz and his kind.

Full of ideas but refuse to pay for any of it and instead hand those of us in the middle incomes the cheque!

Flood tax. Yes please but I won't pay.
Carbon tax. Yes please but I won't pay.
Increase welfare for the unemployed? Yes please but I won't pay.
More money for hospitals and schools. Yes please but I won't pay.

Let's tax other people for it.....

Buzz is the worst kind of Australian.
Wants everything. Doesn't want to pay for any of it.

Disgrace.

How anyone in their right mind can criticise a guy that paid MORE than he did, well the mind boggles.

We paid $8k per month Buzz.
Did you?

buzzanddidj wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 5:51pm:


a) A SCAM is illegal.
b) The state of Guernsey tax authority is independent from the British Government and decided by the Island. Hence the tax rate.
c) It was not 80%.


Feel free to get other things WRONG too.

buzzanddidj wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 6:03pm:


But I bet you would be complaining if you had to fork out for it now, this and were still paying tax.

This and had a family to provide for at the same time.

Fact is... it was unnecessary, this government thinks little of family's and middle income earners.

Socialism is supposed to be about robbing the rich to give to the poor, not robbing middle class to give a little to the poor but most to the rich.

Who do you suppose is cashing in on the re-development of QLD?

 Investors are rubbing their hands together...well and truly.

Why are funds taking their time?

Because those who really matter want their money up front!