Butch read my last post to you. Swan said tax receipts were down for the last quarter, if that trend continues there will not be a surplus.
Tax receipts being down could be in export figures.
We do have low unemployment, but we are subject to commodity pricing, which won't necessarily effect employment.
Grain will be stripped and sold at market price, weather it be a good price or a bad price. This will effect tax receipts.
On one hand you talk about basic services, and then you say spending like drunken sailors. There again you have a confusion between state and federal funding. Not all downturn in services can be attributed to federal govt;. Most services are % funded with states. So if the state pulls it's share of funding the % of federal funding will drop also.
So be careful who you blame for funding cuts, the first cut will come from the state, and federal cut will be % proportionate.

579>> Butch read my last post to you. Swan said tax receipts were down for the last quarter, if that trend continues there will not be a surplus.<<

Surprise, surprise, surprise

579>> Tax receipts being down could be in export figures.<<

Well it is certainly not from diminishing bank profits.

579>> We do have low unemployment, but we are subject to commodity pricing, which won't necessarily effect employment.<<

So pleased we have you to forecast for us…we sell less coal and minerals…and the number of jobs stays the same…that makes sense.

579>>Grain will be stripped and sold at market price, weather it be a good price or a bad price. This will effect tax receipts.<<

Guess it would, but that is no insight, it is more the obvious.

579>>On one hand you talk about basic services, and then you say spending like drunken sailors. There again you have a confusion between state and federal funding. Not all downturn in services can be attributed to federal govt;. Most services are % funded with states <<

Are you talking about the states that had consecutive terms of Labor governments that corrupted and mismanaged their state’s coffers and left huge debts to their political rivals?

579>>So be careful who you blame for funding cuts, the first cut will come from the state, and federal cut will be % proportionate<<

All cuts courtesy of Labors inability to manage finances. State or Fed finances, they take care of their own needs …Take Obeid, Rosenthal and even Gillard as fine examples of slight handing others money.

4 of the 6 you have proven correct. the other 2 are still waiting for your answers.
Where the lib state cuts come from is their difference in values to the community.
The libs see all expenditure on services as a deficit.
Their agenda is to give tax breaks to the Gina's of this nation.
Why else do you think that most lib govt; are short-lived.
They take and take from the community, with no remorse. The public will not put up with that.
Our govt; is expected to supply services, not give public money to superrich people or companies.
Abbott wants to give upercrust welfare.
Those sorts of policies fail in a very short time.
Newman in QLD is how not to survive political assasination

Bazz - My point is 1 for every 118 people then you add the state Government and local Government employees to that.

Also a lot of federal government employees are hidden under different organizations but the taxpayer pays for everything for them.

Garbage collectors, street sweepers, and everybody that does something for you, is a dead loss, right o.

Garbage collectors, street sweepers, and everybody that does something for you, is a dead loss, right o.
579,
Are you the perfect oxygen thief or are you just winding us up ? We're talking about the Public Service bureaucrats not decent, important people like the above mentioned.
Anyone that does something to provide a service is a useful citizen. I suppose one could possibly get 2 or 3 useful public servants out of every hundred but I haven't personally seen that yet.
The only reason why we have so many pointless public servants is to bolster the election chances of the ALP, nothing else.