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You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still
I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.
"That is Signal, the Last Follower of the Old Law."
your honor my client is guilty can i get another one
There is definitely a phenomena where people try SO hard to avoid anthropomorphism they end up looping around into this quasi-religious stance that humans have some essential non-biological quality that sets us apart from other animals. Like being so cautious about how you describe emotion experienced by a nonhuman animal that you go "that animal is not 'happy' it's just demonstrating a response to positive stimuli and receiving chemical reward signals" as if that's not also what human emotion is at the fundamental level.
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There seems to be a lotus blooming in my askbox. Let's all fold our hands behind our backs maturelike and view it for a moment
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The negative gearing/capital gains tax changes are really simple and benefit regular people
The media (owned by rich people) are currently going "WOW? SO CONFUSING! BAD LABOR BUDGET BAD! MASSIVE TAX HIKES!" but what actually is happening?
Negative gearing ISN'T being abolished. Literally everyone who already benefited from it on their investment portfolios continues to have it. Anyone complaining and saying they're going to raise the rent because it's made things less profitable for them is lying and a scumbag.
The change is going forward any ADDITIONAL properties an investor wants to get tax breaks on can only be applied to NEW builds, thus encouraging investors to build new properties (instead of buying all the currently existing ones and driving prices up). So who is negatively impacted by this? Literally no one. Who does this benefit? Anyone who wants to live in a house because it increases housing supply and makes the housing market less competitive for investors vs home owners.
Really simple.
What about capital gains tax discount? Basically, in the 90s John Howard made it so that when you sold a house you'd get a 50% discount where half of the profit wasn't taxed. Investors went woohoo! Bought up all the affordable houses to drive prices up and make a big profit. It fueled the housing crisis for the past 30 years. But Labor went "actually, what if we just tax it at 30% instead with no discount?" So instead of half of the money being tax free, it's all taxed. You know... like how making money normally works???
30% is still actually lower than the top two income tax brackets so rich people will still manage to make lots of money without having to work BUT... they'll just have to pay a little tax. BUT only on profit. If a property makes a loss it's not taxed. The amount of tax is also adjusted down relative to inflation so a $100,000 profit isn't taxed $30,000 but actually less depending on how much inflation happened during the time the asset was held.
Also capital gains tax doesn't apply to the home you live in so unless you're a property investor YOU'RE NOT GETTING TAXED! THE VAST MAJORITY OF AUSTRALIANS ARE NOT BEING AFFECTED HERE AND YET WE'RE SEEING WIDE PUBLIC OUTRAGE OVER A TAX DESIGNED TO MAKE THE HOUSING MARKET LESS COMPETITIVE AND THUS EASIER FOR HOME OWNERS TO ENTER IT.
This budget literally mostly just slightly inconveniences the 1% of investors who own a WHOPPING 25% OF INVESTMENT PROPERTIES IN AUSTRALIA.
The capital gains tax discount was never for working Australians! It was never for you! It was always just a tax perk for investors to encourage them to buy up houses away from those who needed them and hike up rents. Labor fixed that.
No wonder the rich media moguls and politicians who make most of their money off property investments like Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor are mad about it and want YOU to be mad too. They don't want to pay taxes! Booo! The problem is: if we can't get the uber-wealthy to pay a little bit of tax then YOU will NEVER own a home!
So the changes are really simple. They're mild. And yet the right is outraged over how it even slightly benefits working and ordinary Australians.
Fucking ridiculous.
A truthberry might make you tell the truth... But a lieberry? A lieberry will loan you books
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I love how every time I log on, this site attains new levels of heresy. I can't wait to see what is next.
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hold on. im shifting into auspol mode.
do not get stressed about the newspolls saying one nation are toootally going to win the next election. first of all those newspolls are straight up propaganda, and second - if we're pretending that theyre credible (which theyre not) but if we pretend, the most they mean is one nation might have overtaken the liberals in the 2 party preferred, so an election would be between labor and one nation , not the liberals. but i also wouldnt get stressed about that fact because, lets check, labor currently hold Ninety Four seats, one nation have two.
Adding into this as an FYI to all aussies.
One Nation repeatedly uses cooked election poll data to present an over confident vote towards them. They have done it for at least the last two federal elections and the results have NEVER been reflected in the actual polling numbers.
The ABC has recently run a news story on their Instagram which i weirdly can't find on their website as an article but it might pop up tomorrow. The AFR article they cite can be read behind a removed paywall here.
Anyway here's the data the ABC is presenting:
The catch is that they are not citing two seperate poll sources, they are citing the Australian Financial Review which is a news site that uses Redbridge Group and Accent Research as their OFFICIAL poll strategists, as in an Australian newspaper owned by Fairfax Media with Rupert Murdoch (News Corp) as one of their major shareholders, PAYS these poll strategists to generate opinion polls to share to their right wing readers.
On top of that, they actually cited 1005 people lol. That is NOT a reliable representation of the Australian population.
Because of this I'm adding Redbridge Group and Accent Research to the growing list of conservative right wing poll strategists that we should be wary of. The other is Freshwater Strategy which was data that the liberals relied upon for their legendary total bust in the last election.