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Originally Posted by Kunama
All this Harvey Norman bashing seems to bypass the fact that Harvey Norman, and many thousand other businesses that may benefit from this new system, employ many many thousands of Australians, Australian who otherwise might be out of work and then in no position to buy anything from here or overseas....
I have often read the laments and complaints here on IIS that several astronomy related businesses have closed their doors in Australia, perhaps by the same people who now moan about having to pay to import cheap goods into Australia...
Australian employers like Gerry Harvey have to pay wages, provide sick leave, Superannuation, insurance etc..... all things that are 'foreign' to the bulk of the manufacturers most buyers obtain goods from.....
Just typing out loud......
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pray do tell how so? GH and co will just raise prices more, to grab more $$$$. That's what greedy gits like GH do.
GST on Internet purchases was NEVER about tax income for the government - it was always about the lobbying that private businesses based in Australia have done, oops, I mean bribed our Australian politicians to do. Again, our constitution says nothing about businesses having the right to vote, or influence our government(s). I'm curious as to why our governor general isn't sacking the entire LNP government for abusing the constitution. Oh but wait, he can't...Malcolm Fraser saw to that with various legislative amendments...there is no watch dog in Australia that monitors our politicians and punishes them.
Let's consider all bills passed in the senate with the votes of all of those pollies who were not legally entitled to be a MP due to the citizenship clauses in our constitution. They should be ALL be repealed and voted on again, by MPs who are legally entitled to be MPs. Said illegal MPs should be thrown in jail for fraud against the commonwealth of Australia. All income earned during their illegal reign should be paid back, with full interest. Nah, will never happen...and the majority of Australians are both too lazy, and too stupid to realise this stuff. No wonder our country is going down the gurgler.