Disposable income 1.40 / week how measly can one get. You will just have to stay away from poker machines and horses.
a597,
C'mon, you're smarter than that. Surely you know that this about more than a measly $1.40.

I don't know where she would find the money for the massive task the floods have left us.Sparkyq,
How about more speed cameras, higher rego, greater fines, higher parking fees etc. Mate, the opportunities are as boundless as Labor incompetence.

individual, Monday, 31 January 2011 9:37:03 PM

Re; your remarks about disposable income I am a stroke victim , I can walk awkwardly short distance only, 67 years old not eligible for TAXI
fare assistance I have one daughter at Uni and a son at Tafe , I just don't have no disposable income I have a deficit , do I qualify for your miserable ba.....d Status ?
You seem to "vote in" TV performers believing them to the "Ducks-guts" to run your corrupt State so don't winge about most of us who having noted your largess with money are reticent to support your Voters .

Garum Masala,
I'm sorry but you appear to misunderstand my post. It was aimed at a597's statement re "measly'. I'm totally on the side of those who already contribute more than their share. It was to highlight at the incessant fleecing of the working class by Government which is playing Trojan Horse with taxes.
The flood victims desperately need help but so do our pensioners, many of whom have been victims for a lot longer than one bad season. Again I say, there is only one fair tax & that is a flat tax. We simply cannot call ourselves a fair society when one lot pays more tax for earning less money. With a flat tax & a competent Government in place there would not be a need for constant calls of help. The coffers would be full as they were before. With a better economy resulting from flat tax people could afford to build better & in better places & less damage would occur.

It is unfortunate that so many people are so dense in the head, In the 1950's, the top (remember that word) tax of 66.6% was introduced to drag us out of the depression that had been causing horrible consquences with conditions for the workers and small business. This forced the reduction of obscene salaries etc., and the Australian economy bounced back, workers were able to enjoy their life, get full time jobs (not just 2 and 3 day jobs many have to rely on today), buy and keep their own homes and cloth and feed their families properly. Unfortunately, the parties that came in after 1971, have a different outlook and want to regurgitate the conditions by returning conditions to the 1930's era. If the top tax was returned to that 66.6% and the no tax was increased to probably $25,000, the economy would increase remarkably, we would have plenty in kitty to cover the recovery from floods and fires, beyond what the insurance companies would do, and the public would find that they are all much better off. As long as we had Politicans who could keep thands out of the till, and not go on a rampage for themselves as they have done previously, they have no integrity,certainly not in those main parties. Unfortunately, these same parties have got a gimlet in their head and it has leaked in that exporting of our nen renewable, non value added resources with the reciprocal import of all those goods that our own factories used to manufacture before the exporting began, is destroying our own industries.

Individual you are right please accept my apologies .