Paul1405 said;
Despite an iron clad promise from "Honest" Johnny Howard that there
would never ever be a GST from his government, at the first opportunity he introduced one.

Now, I know that you know the truth about that because you have been
told previously.
The GST was introduced AFTER an election during which it was part of
the campaign to introduce a GST.

When you repeat that the way you do it makes you the liar, not John Howard.
You damage your own reputation. I can see that the way you wrote it
is to enable you to say,
"I didn't say that it was not mentioned in the election".
Knowing full well that anyone who didn't know that it was an election
policy would presume that Howard lied.

It is a pretty sneaky way to write a comment.
Perhaps Andrew Bolt is right about the left !

I've read one comment which more fits more in with my line of thought. With a GST increase, review how you live and be willing to pay more in tax (much more simply) to have better community services and infrastructure. I don't really want to hear silly debates about eating pies and tax. I don't see tax reform as a result going far in Australia as a result.

Belly in fairness to Abbott, while he did say he will not touch the GST, he has included it in the agenda of tax assessments, or what ever he called it, so there is a chance he will visit that come next election.

Paul, if he does take an increase to the next election, can I suggest that you take note of that, because you obviously missed it when Howard did the same. Either that or you are just blowing more hot air.

I'm happy to give you the benefit of the doubt.

"Do you mean the one that cost millions to implement and returned next to nothing. Yep! Well worth saving."

No I mean the one originally proposed by Kevin Rudd. The one the lieberals and their mining masters killed. The one phony rabbott called "a great big new tax". An epithet i intend to use every time these liars try to weasel out of their supposedly rock solid support for low taxes and small government. Filthy Hypocrites.

Rehctub, anyone who reviews taxes has got to consider every tax so that
you can examine the effect of one tax on another.
However it seems to depend on your political leanings whether want to
use it to bash someone over the head with it.

How many politicians have a family trust?

Why is not the use of trust structures targeted?