[Renato1 (Renato)]

Typical loony left stuff from the Guardian. I wonder if they cut and paste it from The Issue (which the unemployed sell on street corners).

Take the fossil fuel subsidies. The tax on fuels is meant to go towards road building. But the mining companies build their own roads and run there own vehicles on them. The rebate they get is because they've built the roads and not the government.

Or Income tax - from the ATO, the top 25% of income earners (those taxpayers with an income above $75,650) paid 67.4% of all net income tax. And if the Deficit levy comes in, Australia will have the third highest marginal tax rate in the OECD. The Guardian wants them to pay even more?

Mining taxes - The Guardian compares us to the great mining giant of Norway???? Why not do the comparison to our direct competitors - Canada, Brazil etc, - which is where all mining capital would go to. Plainly part of the Green's agenda to shut down mining in Australia.

Private Schools - ignores State government funding. Somehow, according to the Guardian, it will be cheaper if parents stop paying up to $20,000 or more per student for something they could get for free from the government. The thought "Arithmetically challenged" comes to mind.

Negative gearing - ignores the fact that the government has hundreds of billions in capital gains tax that it is collecting or will collect in the future.

Superannuation - claims concessions saves $200million on old age pensions. Old age pension is around $20,000 pa per single pensioner. Assume all pensioners are single. That's 10,000 pensioners getting $20,000 to make up the $200 million. So our whole superannuation industry and government concessions is geared towards keeping a minuscule 10,000 people off the old age pension? This is a simple nonsense - we know that 20% of the population doesn't go on the old age pension in full or part, and that is a lot more than 10,000 people.

Class warfare is alive and well at the Guardian. Must have been devastated when Gillard was deposed.
Cheers,
Renato