Perhaps with Ford, Holden and Toyota outta here the LNP can look at the tax subsidy available to the wealthy and their leased foreign cars.

Perhaps it could look at he tax ride given the wealthy superannuated. Perhaps it should look at all the shady loop-holes the wealthy exploit rather than pay tax at marginal rates like the rest of us.

Perhaps a diesel excise. Perhaps, perhaps.

BTW where can I buy two middies for six bucks?

This lying, conniving cowboy-outfit of a government could do a lot better than to turn on those that voted them in to rid the Rudd/Gillard musical chairs fiasco. Confecting a budget emergency to veil its ideological thrust hasn't dulled the uproar, so expect some peace offerings just before the next election to buy voters back.

Abbott's sheer deceit, skulduggery, audacity, chutzpah, humbug, hubris and hypocrisy makes him possibly the finest politician this country has ever produced. I find interesting the support by the usual motley suspects on OLO, as if they were in on the subterfuge rather than right royally screwed over like everyone else. It's truly sad to see their capacity for independent thought completely eschewed, as if they're hand muppets. I never realized just how deep the hand went, until now.

Just some musings on a most unamusing topic. Like someone here said already, politics is not anymore the Tweedledum and Tweedledee it was.

PS How's the NBN in your area?

rehctub,

".... then how have they lied?"

They've done nothing BUT lie.

And they're still lying.

Regarding the underhand "surprise" cuts to the states. On Sunday Abbott said:

"We're not talking about next week or next month or even next year; we are taking about changes in three years time."

But Abbott now agrees the national partnership agreement on public hospitals, which begins on July 1, has been cut. Budget documents say it has been cut by $1.8 billion over the next four years.

(Joe Hockey just said on Qanda that you don't have to lie to get elected.....followed by saying they have "stopped the boats")

Lol!

So it's all a big joke...rehctub is flailing around trying to find just one technical point where they mightn't have lied.

(good luck with that!)

Taking a closer look at the Budget. Most of these reforms won't come into effect until 2017 or 2020. They won't get in if another election is called now & possibly not in 3 years time either.

So, is the plan to get as much money in now & scrap the bad bits over the next two Budgets? Thereby making them look like good guys.

.....Perhaps with Ford, Holden and Toyota outta here the LNP can look at the tax subsidy available to the wealthy and their leased foreign cars.

L, thankfully our great nation was not built on the attitudes of under achievers, because if it was, we would be in real trouble as we would all be relying on foriegn aid for what too many take for granted as, subsidized livelihoods and good luck with that I would say because most other nations are in much worse shape than we are.

There was always going to be a time whereby even the risk takers couldn't fill the gap to support the under achievers, we just didn't know when that time was and, if not for the missmanagement of Rudd and Gillard, there may well have been some breathing space but, something under achievers fail to get a grip on, is that money can only be spent once and, if spent without result is waste and that is what has caused the current situation.

There will always be risk takers but, if labor gets another crack, chances are these risk takers will be seeking out even more ways to avoid taxes, considering they would most likely be wasted again. I say this because Bill Short-on-ideas has no plan other than to complain.

An election result will depend largely on how many of the hand out brigade bothered to vote last time.

Piorot, with regards to lies, or no lies, is it not more important to debate the alternatives. Because so far Bill-short-on-ideas has none. Do you!

"Hasbeen- I have never heard a story quite like yours it sounds like you live in another country altogether ! It almost sounds like you are pulling someones leg" !

Posted by trapdiocan.

Sounds like you have never been out of the big city, where all things are given to all people. Out here in the sticks, there's a lot of things we don't get.

The oldies, particularly widows living independently, do get quite a bit of help from charity organisations, but only the desperate get bulk billing. We get a free charity bus once a week, taking them to town, [25 Kilometers so a bit of a walk], & to things like doctors, bank, dentist & supermarkets. Just as well, as the only other transport is the school bus, & adults aren't allowed on that.

Strangely, I have had a few skin cancers cut out on my regular visits, & the whole visit then becomes free. I'm damned if I know how it works, but I'd rather pay than be developing cancer, so I won't wish for more.

You might be surprised at how the other half have to live.

Worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ex6MAtcOe8&feature=youtu.be