Yuyutsu said "So person A needs some job to be done and person B can offer this service, they meet each other and happily reach an agreement, some form of a work-for-money exchange,"

then comes along the police (my word0 out of the dark clouds, labels one of them an "addict" (my word) and the other "dealer" (my word) and says: "Stop, you can't do that".
How ridiculous and abusive. Two adults are in agreement."

rehctub said "Paul, the reason this so called grub didn't give a receipt, is cause your dear old dad wanted a discount, ie, no GST. BTW, I don't blame him." For a start the old bloke didn't ask for a discount, the grub told him he would do it straight away for $260 cash!
Rehctub you condone people braking the law through tax avoidance. Are you also advising people who can't afford the GST to steal from shops?

Nice try Paul, but saying I don't blame him is not offering my support, however, this may come as a surprise to you, but I think the way the GST is charged, to those who can least afford it, is not fair.

As for the guy wanting cash, dad could have complained about that. It's the only way to get rid of shonks after all.

That whole shonky show of licenses, permits, blue cards, gold cards, white cards, registrations etc etc etc is only there to keep the public Service affluent. Build a couple of roads here'n there yes, but most of our taxes go to people who do extremely little for their fellow citizens in return for being mollycoddled from cradle to grave. This has to stop. An ALP government will not do that, a Coalition Government may give it a go but will have to tolerate constant interference from the lefties.
Most budgets for a service to the public contain at least 50% just for bureaucracy. That has to stop !
Yes, money was originally made round to go round but it appears to always end up in undeserving hands.

As for the guy wanting cash, dad could have complained about that. It's the only way to get rid of shonks after all.

Posted by rehctub, Thursday, 19 July 2012 10:44:02 AM

Dad is 80 half blind, takes all day to read a newspaper. That's okay cause I rang the ATO this morning about this grub. Gave them some details from the local newspaper. The AOT should simply set up a sting on these types of people. They would catch literally 1000's. car repairers, tradesmen etc. Bust them on the spot, big fines. Your right about the GST.

Dear Paul,

I am no expert on drugs and the variation you introduced is completely foreign to my lifestyle and the kind of people I meet, but ASSUMING (perhaps out of ignorance) that no third-party is injured by the exchange between the one so-called "addict" and the one so-called "dealer", and assuming none of them asked at any stage for the state to interfere in their affairs, then your variation holds as well and the police has no right to intervene, telling them they can't do it (however, personally I would stay away from them and not befriend such duo).

We are now looking down the barrel of IR. The mining boom has workers flocking in without a thought other than money. The places they leave will suffer from their desertion & the places they go to chasing the almighty Dollar are already suffering the first symptoms. Excessive rent & hastily brought in infrastructure are already changing the small towns. When the boom is over in a couple of years everything will be totally out of balance from insane mortgages to absolutely no economy to continue life in the towns that got overrun in the rush.
It's just a silly short-term rush from which no worker will really benefit because the money they make is driving up their expenses as well. Extremely short sighted indeed.
Families will break up en masse & more children will grow up without direction.
If Government doesn't modify IR on the run we'll all pay for the failure.