We should have a register of those who believe that increased taxes on those deemed to be best able to afford it is a viable ongoing approach.

Future government borrowing could then be based on the assumed ability of those on the register to pay that debt.

Personally I'm well and truly over hearing from others that they think I have the responsibility to pay extra taxes to support their views on how the world should operate.

Those who I've known personally who think like that seem to be pretty good at finding way's to minimise their own contributions to the tax pool. Maybe there are some who chip in a bit extra to back their beliefs but I've not known any of them.

R0bert

As the thread seem to tell us the financial year beginning 1 July next year and ending last day June 2013 will see no return to black.
May I request also who will win the Melbourne Cup this year.
And if our seer has time the world Cup?

Ok Belly do think they can return is to surplus.

Remember, they promised again and again and again, whether they had a mining tax or not.

Do you remember that.

So, can they?

Rechtub stay with me.
I have the future in focus now.
Glass looks a bit smoky.
Yes not sure why but we seem to be looking ten years hence.
Yes! they scraped it in,wait, conservative Prime Minister is praising the actions of Labor in the GFC!
Bit foggy, tell you what ,clean my beer glass first next time.

It's a shame it's such a serious situation, otherwise I would share your humor.

This government, without doubt, will go down in history as the worst ever in the nation, bar none.

The GFC
They went out, lke a bull at a gate and spent/wasted billions on stimulus and failed project after failed project, yet, despite advice from experts within the fields, they still insisted that they were on the right track.

The stimulus.
Great idear, after all, what's the point of having savings if you can't use them to help your own people, the very people who actually own the funds.

Problem is, they were incapable of distributing it properly.

Ok, so they made a mistake first time round, but what about the other times.

Jobs creation, solar, school halls and insulation.

Insulation.
Again, great idear but, once again ignored expert advice and wasted billions, cost lives and have created a potential time bomb for many home owners. About the only thing they have done is kept people in work fixing stuff ups.

Solar
Again, a good thought but poorly executed.

Both these schemes sent many profitable (existing businesses) to the wall.

School halls.
No quotes needed, just register as a contractor and off you go. Cost billions.

Copenhagen
$58 for a bowl of soup and, times 100 plus for their ontorauge and achieved nothing.

Rudd insisted, cost him his job in the end.

Fuel watch, grocery watch, cash for clunkers, alco pops tax, the list goes on, all cost billions and achieved little, simply because they are out of their depth.

We now have carbon tax, 2% of the world trying to fix 100% of the problems.

Mining tax, another joke. Tax the minerals yes, but the miners, no.

Boat people.
We are being peaceful invaded and paying billions for the privilege.

They are a joke!

This is why we need better pollies, people from the real world, with real life experience.

The waste continues.

rectub,

Meanwhile, no recession, record low unemployment plus a strong and growing economy plus international recognition of a successful strategy.

Some failure.

Any country in particular you want to swap places with?

Greece? USA maybe?