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Originally Posted by Renato1
If you want to quote poverty figures from the I-Want-To-Live-In-A-Socialist-Utopia Australian Council of Social Services, well, that's fine.
I note that for the last forty years ACOSS have always been calling for big taxes to fix this problem.
But I haven't heard them say anything about the issue in this thread - the so-called millionaires who aren't going to live as well as old age pensioners with out depleting their assets.
Regards,
Renato
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what is socialism Renato?
There are many who dont mind socialist welfare when it is applied to corporations and the banking cartels.
Take the fossil sectors in AUstralia for example - they receive about 12 billion dollars per year in tax payer funded rorts and subsidies. And this obscene hand out is given to a mature industry that is blessed with many economies of scale and market advantages (not to mention the fact that it is also over 80% foreign owned)
So when you say "socialism" you need to define it and also outline where it is applied in our society and who benefits from it.
The system is stacked - its rigged.
This is why we have perhaps the biggest corporation in the world EXXON-MOBIL post 73 billion dollars in PROFIT and pay 2% in tax.
You do not what to know what the tax payer in Australia pays to fund the corporate welfare system.
(Pension asset test? Perhaps what is needed is legislation that prohibits corporate welfare hand outs - if the corner family owned Bottle shop is subject to tough love and capitalist discipline, so should the Coles and Woolworths bottle shop chains)