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Originally Posted by rat156
I, as a Federal employee, take offence to that remark.
It is interesting to hear the uproar when a few hundred jobs go in some manufacturing industry by commentators from all sides of politics, but when the Public Service is slashed, crickets...
Why do people consistently degrade those who work for Government?
Then again, I take offence to Andrew Blot as well.
Cheers
Stuart
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Hi Stuart,
As a former Federal Employee myself, I'm not sure why you would take offence. What is the point of creating more jobs, or not slashing jobs that should go, merely to administer a new tax that in net terms raises next to nothing?
It's like paying people to dig holes and then filling them up again.
Or one could swell the size of the ATO by hiring and army or people to check every second-hand transaction on Ebay to ensure that people declared their capital gains on every item sold e.g. they bought a book for a dollar after 1985, and sold it for four dollars now on Ebay. That's a taxable capital gain.
Regards,
Renato