Thread: Tax

Originally Posted by

I LIKE option 3.

, it can't get better than that so may be you ought to close this thread whilst you are ahead.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Jack E

If you can see $30000 as only a few dollars then good luck to you!!!

Jack.

From Left field 11 years in the army, good stuff Jack a few of my friends did the same, not a life for all I gather. But I can guess where the money for the lads & lassies and the necessary gadgets is garnered, so apparently we come from different camps entirely as I pity someone who sees it as anything more than what it is "money" thats all it is after all, not life, not death, not prosterity, nor rememberance..... it's just money.
Yes I earn it and require it, and yet I still refuse to allow it to rule my existence. I don't mind paying my taxes, only caveat I wish for is that at least 50% would go to those less fortunate than I.


Bruce C
NB; by less fortunate I did not mean Pollies

G'day,

I'm going to wade in here with my 2 cents and be a bit contoversial.

I once was in a job once and didn't join the union - so I got sacked.

I see my brother-in-law who is a rigger and so is with a union - it rains and he's been there for 1/2 a day he goes home on full pay for the day. An apple will be thrown in the toilet so it clogs, they walk off because it's not up to scratch, there's intimadation galore. Unions demand picnic days and insist that the company they are working for pay them for it. A bit of steel might be thrown off a site a few floors up - it's unsafe, so the worksite is shut down and they go home on full pay for a few days until it's resolved. They have a dispute over pay, have a strike and they want to be paid.

An empoyer wants to streamline his business because under a union you can only pick up a hammer but you can't pick up a screwdriver - so instead the employer wants guys who can pick up a hammer and use a screwdriver and a shovel too. But the union says he can't sack that person to get someone to do the job of three people - it's his business, so why can't he?

It's not about better conditions, but let's see what we can get as freebies for the boys and drag the economy down - look at Victoria's record with the most delays per year by unions.

Pay your union fees - money for the union bosses.

It should be freedom of choice, not pay fees for a bunch of militants.

To me it's a whole load of C***

Sorry if I have offened some, but I can't wait until the job reforms come through after July 1. Unions have a place, but not a place where we have militant unions saying you can't be a chippie or whatever unless you pay up.

(I'm not a chippie BTW, but do it over again and I would be - instead I run my own business as a design consultancy)