Swagman wrote on Sep 29
th, 2014 at 3:52pm:
Bam wrote on Sep 29
th, 2014 at 3:04pm:
Swagman wrote on Sep 29
th, 2014 at 10:54am:
Stratos wrote on Sep 29
th, 2014 at 10:47am:
Swagman wrote on Sep 29
th, 2014 at 10:43am:
It's pretty difficult for anyone to totally avoid paying tax which is why I specifically refer to 'net' tax. Roughly 80% of people pay zero or negative 'net' tax.
Correct Swaggy, assuming the 80% do not pay rates, GST or any other form of tax other than income tax, have multiple children that they get government support for, recieve the old age pension, the disability pension AND unemployment benefits.
Tax paid less additional benefits received = net tax.
Is it collated as a Stat. No. That would upset the ochlocrats.
No, it would simply refute your argument.
You never discuss the fact that the top quintile own about 60% of the wealth in Australia and this proportion is increasing. These hogs grow fatter on the wealth of the nation.
Wealth has naught to do with it. They are taxed on income not wealth.
Rubbish. Wealth generates income.
Quote:I could win Lotto and be fortunately wealthy for 5 minutes. Doesn't mean that I'll be a high income earner next year but I will still have the wealth (one would hope)
If you have a high income you will naturally accrue wealth. You have already been taxed on that income. If you off load your wealth for a capital gain the good old blood sucking government will be leaching off you yet again for their pound of flesh.
As opposed to how many of the wealthy acquired their wealth in the first place - coercion, threats, theft and intimidation?
Quote:The FACT remains that it is a small percentage of the Collective that pays for everyone else. F A C T
Because they have stolen and hoarded the wealth of the nation. FACT. Ever wonder why the Liberals always seek to privatise things, and always for private profit? They seek to steal the commonwealth, a bit at a time.
Quote:They pay a sheet-load more tax than the vast majority of others. They (most) do it under duress (threat of prosecution).
And how did many of them accumulate their wealth? By taking it from others under duress, by stealing it for less than its full value.
Quote:Being made to hand over close to half your income (valuables) under threat is robbery.
Being made to keep only 20% of the value of your labour is robbery. No capitalist ever employs someone unless they can make more profit from that labour than they pay out in wages and overheads.
Quote:Handing over half your income is effectively working near half your time for nothing. Being made to work for nothing is slavery.
Like the workers do, once their bills are paid?
Quote:Progressive taxation is therefore slavery.
Working for subsistence wages is slavery.