What the fuck is wrong with QLDers?

[IQS.RLOW]

Is it time to cut these whack jobs off the country?

They have given us
Rudd
Wayne Swan
Clive Palmer
Peter Slipper
Joh B Peterson
Bob Katter
Peter Beattie
Pauline Hanson
Aussie

Are they all inbred fucks up there with some genetic disorder? Do they have some kind of liquid stupid that they add to the water?

How do they get such a high proportion of dysfunctional people and then vote them into positions of power and if this lot is representative of the best that QLD has to offer, you can just imagine the level of toothless pleb who inhabits the place.

[DaS Energy]

Like any septic tank the big shit always go to the bottom, that's why there are so many floating round where you swim!

[Aldebaran5]

What's the problem with Queensland? Have all your mates moved here and you can't afford the bus fare?

Queensland and WA together are propping you lot up. I hope you appreciate it.

It never ceases to amaze me what some people will post just because they can't get it up any other way.

[mantra]

Is it time to cut these whack jobs off the country?

They have given us
Rudd
Wayne Swan
Clive Palmer
Peter Slipper
Joh B Peterson
Bob Katter
Peter Beattie
Pauline Hanson
Aussie

Are they all inbred fucks up there with some genetic disorder? Do they have some kind of liquid stupid that they add to the water?

How do they get such a high proportion of dysfunctional people and then vote them into positions of power and if this lot is representative of the best that QLD has to offer, you can just imagine the level of toothless pleb who inhabits the place.

Did you consider that they might be rebelling against the Newman government?

[mellie]

Is it time to cut these whack jobs off the country?

They have given us
Rudd
Wayne Swan
Clive Palmer
Peter Slipper
Joh B Peterson
Bob Katter
Peter Beattie
Pauline Hanson
Aussie

Are they all inbred fucks up there with some genetic disorder? Do they have some kind of liquid stupid that they add to the water?

How do they get such a high proportion of dysfunctional people and then vote them into positions of power and if this lot is representative of the best that QLD has to offer, you can just imagine the level of toothless pleb who inhabits the place.

"QLD is a foreign state: they do things differently there."

...

[Rorschach]

What's the problem with Queensland? Have all your mates moved here and you can't afford the bus fare?

Queensland and WA together are propping you lot up. I hope you appreciate it.

It never ceases to amaze me what some people will post just because they can't get it up any other way.

I wouldn't assume that the original poster doesn't come from WA or Qld for that matter.
NSW has been "propping up" all the other states since states were formed in one way or another.

[mellie]

What's the problem with Queensland? Have all your mates moved here and you can't afford the bus fare?

Queensland and WA together are propping you lot up. I hope you appreciate it.

It never ceases to amaze me what some people will post just because they can't get it up any other way.

I wouldn't assume that the original poster doesn't come from WA or Qld for that matter.
NSW has been "propping up" all the other states since states were formed in one way or another.

... What a load of bunkum.... if anything, WA has been propping up the nation with their mining industry.

Tell us Roach, how has QLD been propping up the nation?

With their Big Pineapple?

That said.... and no thanks to a Labor, WA's state economy is technically in recession, but will improve now that Libs are back in.

[Rorschach]

dear medhead...

Tell us Roach, how has QLD been propping up the nation?

With their Big Pineapple?

Please provide a quote where I ever said such a thing?

If not.... go away and....

[mellie]

Sorry, I just read back.... I was referring to another who claimed QLD and WA had been propping up the rest of our states....but then you still think NSW is.

Where’s the bulk of our mining industry Roach?

WA's mining industry coupled with their petroleum industry is what got us through the GFC on the backbone of 13 years of sound Liberal economical governance.




Hint--- Not NSW or QLD.


Our mining industry is what’s propping our nation up, without it, we'd surely cease to exist/thrive.

[Rorschach]

Sorry, I just read back.... I was referring to another who claimed QLD and WA had been propping up the rest of our states....but then you still think NSW is.

Where’s the bulk of our mining industry Roach?

WA's mining industry coupled with their petroleum industry is what got us through the GFC on the backbone of 13 years of sound Liberal economical governance.

Hint--- Not NSW or QLD.

Our mining industry is what’s propping our nation up, without it, we'd surely cease to exist/thrive.

oh dear.... No mel I don't think whatever it is you think i think. So please just apologise then don't try to squirm out of it.

For the last 20 years and since the GST... NSW and VIC have supported all the other states and territories... only recently has WA been made to pay its fair share. We were barely touched by the GFC and it had nothing to do with a good government and I agree with what you said about mining and the Libs even if you failed to mention China. So no use trying to build a strawman or argue with me when we are in agreement... mostly.

Lets look at the period I mentioned where we have propped up the other states via GST distribution and other levies...

MORE THAN $330 million raised by levies on household electricity bills in NSW has been spent cutting carbon emissions in other states - fully a third of all funds raised under the state's greenhouse gas abatement scheme.

But the NSW opposition said taxpayers in NSW were unknowingly propping up Hazelwood and other coal-fired plants in Victoria and Queensland.

"NSW families are subsidising every other state's emissions except Western Australia's, and nobody knows exactly how much actual carbon has been saved,'' said the Liberal MP Michael Richardson, a long-time critic of the scheme.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energ ... z2eLWKfoBR" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"NSW has consistently argued for a fairer and more sustainable GST distribution system," said the office of the state Treasurer, Mike Baird, in response to our inquiries. "The final report of the independent GST Distribution Review clearly outlined that moving to an equal per capita sharing, with specific support for the smaller states, is the best long term solution."

http://www.politifact.com.au/truth-o-me ... -GST-deal/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

When Peter Costello carries on about how NSW taxpayers are being ripped off on state taxes, he's dead right. But it's him that's doing the ripping, not the State Government.
It's true that NSW is the highest taxing state government, but that situation is forced on us by the antiquated and unreasonable way the GST revenue is divided between the states. And it can never change until Mr Costello agrees to reform the system.

By the third year, 2002-03, Queensland was getting more than the minimum and by the following year all states and territories were above the minimum - bar NSW. In that year the others shared a windfall of $1 billion above the minimum, with Queensland bagging half of it.

You see from all this how seriously Mr Costello misrepresents the true position. But why has NSW - by far the largest state - gained so little from the GST while the others have gained far more than originally expected?
Because of the way NSW is penalised in the carve-up of the GST revenue between the states and territories. The division is proposed by the Commonwealth Grants Commission - after the most arcane and hair-splitting calculations - and approved without question by Mr Costello.
But isn't this an age-old story? Hasn't the pot been split up this way for decades? What's changed?
It's true NSW and Victoria have been required to subsidise the smaller states for donkeys' years. But there've been two significant changes in recent times.

As a result, a much higher proportion of this state's total revenue is now diverted to the smaller states. They now get a share of what used to be our own state taxes.
The second significant change is that, just last year, the grants commission re-jigged its formula and cut our share of the (much bigger) pie even further.
The upshot is that, though the citizens of NSW pay about $13 billion a year in GST, our Government gets only about $10 billion back. The missing $3 billion is the annual subsidy Mr Costello requires us to give the other states and territories - particularly the backward and struggling states of Queensland and WA.
Why are NSW and Victoria singled out for the honour of propping up the other states? Because we have the highest capacity to extract tax revenue from our citizens.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/cos ... 68556.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The proposed change to the break up of the $40 billion GST pool would give extra money to the growth states of Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory to compensate them for the cost of building the schools, roads, hospitals and police stations needed to service their growing populations.

http://www.petermartin.com.au/2009/07/carve-up.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Tasmania’s Labor Premier says the Liberal leader is crying poor “despite rolling in the massive royalties of the mining boom”.
“It’s often forgotten that as recently as 2007, Western Australia was in the same position as Tasmania - a net beneficiary of GST, propped up by NSW, Victoria and Queensland,” Ms Giddings told the National Press Club in Canberra today.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/br ... -over-gst/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mr Barnett conceded WA had been financially propped up by the other states for decades before the boom "but you never have the degree of differences between states that you've got now".

Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/weath ... z2eLeCYdJ6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ALEXANDRA KIRK: It used to be that state and territory treasurers slugged it out with the federal treasurer over the carve-up of the Commonwealth's tax cake. But since the advent of the GST it's a different story.

MICHAEL EGAN: I feel like slitting my wrists. This is the worst possible outcome for the people of NSW. It is a dreadful result.

ALEXANDRA KIRK: New South Wales Treasurer Michael Egan went into today's meeting arguing the system that decides which state gets what is a stupid and unfair one, because, he says, his state will get $376 million less this year.

MICHAEL EGAN: NSW tax payers will be subsidising the other states to the tune of over $15,000 million. That's $2,500 for every man, woman and child in NSW.

Sooooo... until they change the distribution formula for the GST it will remain unfair.