So Tristan I suggest that if you are so concerned about the elderly that each week you visit a nursing home and bring a little joy to someone whose family has abandoned them. Seriously mate your politics is virtue signalling and generally I have found conservatives far more willing to put their money where there mouth is then your mad wealth distribution schemes. Obviously every decent Australian wants old people taken care of in a compassionate manner. To use this issue in a political point scoring exercise is frankly sick and typical of marxist conduct.

1f you want to be taken seriously Tristan, you have to start telling the truth, not just singing from the lefty song book. "In the US Trump made enormous tax cuts for corporations and the rich. There has been NO flow on effect with increased growth or employment. Trickle-down doesn't work"

What would you call the lowest unemployment in decades? The highest employment of African Americans ever, along with most marginal groups.

Do you know these facts, or do you simply avoid reading anything that might dent your Marxist ideology.

The quality and value of Tristan's PhD is evident from his writing: he has attributed to me the proposition that aged care should be left to the market, although I have never expressed that opinion. Your PhD must be in sociology, Tristan.

Elderly people are "left in their own feces with bed sores and starvation"? Who is? Name them. Where are they? If this is more than a figment of your imagination, have you reported the situation to health authorities?

Tax cuts will be used by the wealthy to buy a third Ferrari? My advice would be to sell the Ferraris and buy a Bugatti. But if they did, what business is that of yours? It's their money. On what basis do you think for a millisecond that you are entitled to seize money earned by others?

But that's the way with the socialist left. Their pretensions are profound. That's why there were millions of deaths last century directly related to Marxist ideology. Tristan's still OK with all that, apparently.

CalWest I suggest you explore the following website to get an idea of the state of aged care in this country.

https://www.agedcarecrisis.com/

and this is indicative of what some people go through:

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6109199/aged-care-resident-left-in-dirty-nappies/?cs=14231

If I wanted to 'virtue signal' I'd probably pick a more popular topic ; but most people don't want to know about the Aged Care crisis. I talk about it because I saw my own grandmother suffer. We got her into the best home we could afford. Even then my mother went in there every day to make sure my grandma ate her food - because there weren't enough staff to make sure of it. Basically the residents spent all day sat down in a common room. But at least we got her a private room with her own phone. The other homes were much worse ; and at least many of the workers in grandma's home genuinely cared.

re: Trump ; Ok you have me technically; unemployment is technically low ; however there is the following:

"when the labor market appears to be this tight, it would make sense to see more people in their prime working years (between the ages of 25 and 54) with jobs. However, the employment-to-population ratio for this group is conspicuously feeble. In September, only 79.3% of working-age Americans had jobs." "Part of the problem is that many of them seem to have exited the workforce—meaning, that they’ve given up looking for work." https://qz.com/1414865/the-us-unemployment-rate-is-at-a-48-year-low-so-why-are-so-many-americans-still-out-of-work/

re: 'leaving it to the market' ; well if you won't provide public funding what else do you think you're going to do? You have to make a decision what's most important to you: a tax cut of approx $24 billion a year for the rich ; or crucial frontline services in aged care, dental, mental health. This isn't 'virtue signalling'. It's a question of peoples values, morality and priorities.

Call me a Marxist or whatever ; I'm interested in learning more about Neo-Kantianism - but I don't guess you'll look that up. I'm willing to do what's necessary to fix the crisis. CalWest and Runner have other priorities. Namely $10,000 and $20,000 tax breaks for the very rich.

If you want the tax cuts to go through instead of addressing aged care etc, how about saying EXACTLY where you want Morrison to make the cuts? $24 billion a year is a LOT of money. It's not enough to say 'cut red tape'. Frontline services will be damaged critically.

Social Sciences PhD

Doesn't that say it all ?