With the recent announcement of a mining ‘super tax’, the banks must be feeling pretty nervous considering they also mak 'super profits.

Unlike the miners though, banks are constantly seeking alternatives to employing locals, constantly seeking ways to fleece fees and charges out of ordinary Australians, while at the same time seeking ways to sweeten ties with ‘big business’, evidence of which can be seen by adverts like, ‘ask about our special rates for deposits in excess of $1million’.

Let’s face it, they simply rent commercial space, they close regional branches if they are not profitable, without any regard for the people of the region and, one can hardly call them ‘job creators’, unless of cause you refer to the jobs they create overseas when they ‘out-source’ much of their work.

So in essence, do you think that the banks may have ‘dodged a bullet’?

* constantly seeking ways to fleece fees and charges out of ordinary Australians,*

Sheesh Rectub, sounds just like butchers to me, as they "value add"
their sausages etc :)

Well done yabby, not a relevent comment, quite unusual from you.

Meanwhile, farmers down south still get $130 per lamb. Not a bad increase from about $10 in 1990, hey!

Yup Rectub, we are having a great year with lambs. They kept the
price so low for so long in WA, that farmers sold off 10 million
sheep. Now there is a shortage and finally the processors have
to cough up. About frigging time :)

Luckily I had paddocks full of them this year.

the banks have dogged a bullit...but their fees seem to be under attack on a few sides...personally i feel banks should have to buy up a percentage of govt bonds...just to do business in any juristiction it opperates

they lend govt their own money...this usury is the main excuse behind wages tax...[its supposed to be a tax on income...not wages...but the clever accountants..trained by the ato...misslead us..that income means wages[it isnt..income is proffit made without value adding

on another point..re the supertax..these whiners..[miners]..suggested tis tax in the first place..

rather cleverly..they get all their investment moneys back first...

[ie they get back..all the plant machinery..discovery/claims..every cent back...FIRST..

then get their proffits[bond rate..before paying a penny...

NOTING the big australian/claims..to have re-invested its proffits back..THUS US THE SHAREHOLDERS..HAVNT GOT ANY RETURN..IN OUR SUPER..in this century..[talk about them walking both sides..with their spin

PLUS..they dont pay excise tax on their fuel...plus get subsidies for rail..and other infastructure/..tax free...

and they want a gst increase..now..
in lue of the SUPER/tax..THEY LOBBIED FOR

it is noted with santos liquid/gas...that origen...has increased the cost of power..to spend 35 billion..putting in facilities..lol..infastructure...for santos..and british gas...talk about mates/rates

almost as good as govt gifting the rights to create money to the fed..when govt gave away the fed reserve to the bankers..who then stole our gold silver...with decimalisation..

[pounds/redeemable in shillings/were silver..not nickle..[a ten cent-piece contains 5 cents of nickle...a/shilling..contains 4 dollars of silver...

thats the clever money changers..lobbying govt for special gifts..just like the miners...stealing it direct from the dirt...WE ALL OWN

*just like the miners...stealing it direct from the dirt...WE ALL OWN*

Sheesh OUG, last time I checked, the miners paid around 22 billion
in tax last year. Then their employees, suppliers and contractors
all paid tax too.

How much tax did you give us, from your patch of hooch out the back? :)

If you want to claim ownership to something, surely you first have
to prove that it exists. You are free to apply for a miners license,
then wander around the Great Outback, with a metal detector,
plus flies up your nose and arse, as you search for it!

Its hours and days of fun UOG, try it, just pray to the lord,
I am sure you will get lucky. And out there nobody will care if
you are stoned or not :)