All companies are under deep stress in-relation to the world wide economic down turn, or financial stupidity with backs against the wall with nowhere to turn. Share-holders have as much to gain as the people they serve.

Where is the Governments incentives/assistances?

A hard day a business?

Your thoughts

Tally

Tally, most recently there was a big cry aout big business not paying thier fair share in taxes, when in fact, they pay all net taxes, with the exception of a few individual mega wage earners.

The masses just don't understand how close many big players are to pulling out of Australia. Boy, if they do go then they will have something to complain about, because they just don't give enough credit to the three out of every ten that provide our every day needs and or short falls.

As for government assistance, wind the clock back about seven years and things could have been very different.

rehctub

>The masses just don't understand how close many big players are pulling out of Australia.< While the problems are seemly so simple, a full re-adjustment of currant plans, to which makes a foreseeable out-come with very little choice.

Its heart breaking.

Tally

Rehctub,

You are assuming that the people running these large companies are all entrepreneurial geniuses like Henry Ford or Thomas Edison, that they create such enormous benefits for society that anything that they take for themselves is relatively insignificant. While I wouldn't deny that such people exist, where is your evidence that they are typical? If they were, you would expect the average citizen to be a lot better off too, just not as much as the entrepreneur. There is a lot of evidence, however, that ordinary people in the Anglosphere countries are no better off or have only gotten a few crumbs. See this graph from State of Working America. Most men are getting lower real wages than in 1979, even though the US has had significant economic growth since then, even in per capita terms.

http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/chart/swa-wages-figure-4c-change-real-hourly-wages/

On the other hand, the share of income going to the top 1% in a number of developed countries is shown here. Note that the rich aren't as greedy in the non-Anglosphere countries, even though they are all good economic performers.

http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/chart/swa-income-text-box-figure-2-share-income/

Leaving aside the people who were smart enough to choose the right parents or the right marriage partner, it is possible to get rich by being an entrepreneurial genius, but also by stationing oneself at a choke point in the economy, often through the use of connections or the connivance of corrupt politicians. Such businessmen are about as entrepreneurial as the robber barons along the Rhine. Think of the enormous prices that pharmaceutical companies charge for new cancer drugs that are protected by patents, even though these companies make supernormal profits, spend more on marketing than on R&D, rely heavily on publicly funded research, and put a lot of their own R&D effort into "me,too" drugs designed to get around their competitors' patents, but without providing any additional therapeutic benefit. Your money or your life.

Call Big Business' bluff and make them pay taxes like everyone else. If they go, maybe we can get some Danish companies to set up here instead. Their ethos might rub off on the Australians.

Divergence, over history, in Australia anyway, I was of the understanding that wages increase at a greater rate than inflation, which would mean real wages are higher than in the 70's.

Of cause we all know that it takes more weeks wages to buy a house now, but it also cost fewer to rent in real terms as well. Many food products are cheaper, if not the same, and the likes of power tools are much cheaper.

As for Henry Ford, do you honestly believe we could ever see another like him coming to this country and building an empire, given the red tape, the IR restrictions and the compliance issues and costs. I doubt it! His empire, remembering it died long ago as the only reason it's remained here is due to government support.

As for taxing the top 1% more, be careful what you wish for I say, because as an average, seven out of every ten people you see rely on big business, in fact the top 20% for their welfare support, let alone their wages. As for another country wanting to set up shop here, knowing we have huge wages, huge compliance costs, reduced productivity, no allowance for tax deductions (the cause of the distorted figures) and 30 cents in the dollar tax on profits, all I can say is, good luck with that.

Rehctub...Here's something of interest concerning multiple matters... In order for this company to have more viability, rests upon the general public’s interests of how important on keeping Australian/over-interests=companies here, rather than what is now a point of great concern. Transpacific Clean-Way or recycling as you may know it, devote themselves in order to make a high-end quality product, which effects the profitability of the companies forecast’s and projections. Garbology is in-fact a science of what the general pubic put in there yellow recycling bins and Iam going to point out the importance’s of what this company does for you in relation to the findings.
Report 101-to-109 in short hand.

It seems a vast minority of people still can’t get their minds around of what the yellow bin is for. The company doesn’t mind what you put in the green bins, but what they do find is as listed.
1 Your private information = using a shredder.
2 your SD cards = No mobile Phones.
3 Blood filled injecting equipment = your DNA can be found and traced as result of worker infections.
4 Computer equipment = means they can find out more about you.
5 Female non-compliance = nappies, meds, make-up, white or grey plastic bags containing human biogenetics = non recycling.
6 Male non-compliance = Tools, condoms, pig heads, dead animals, personal information, oils from car or other engineering equipment, electrical goods, fishing line, power cords, ETC.
7 Oils of any kind destroys the out-comes of final product = Pizza boxes, waxed cardboard, rags, ETC
8 Asbestos, building waste, ETC = cancer relative deaths due to possessing.
9 Stationary products, school equipment, backpacks, CD, s, IPods, = larger land fill costs = environmental in-pacts, chemicals of any sort.
10 Kitchen waste as pointed out, toys, stuffed animals. etc.
http://tinyurl.com/pfym6wl
http://tinyurl.com/oteeyeq
P/S you might want to watch out what you put in your bins. The Yellow bins are heavily analysed.

Tally