Flood tax, carbon tax

[IQS.RLOW]

Do these fucking idiots know how to do anything without either pissing money up against the wall or inventing new taxes

[Ethnic]

Nope. They're too busy ripping down air conditioned classrooms and replacing them with smaller, non-air conditioned classrooms, leaving many children at risk during the hot months. Let's not forget that the classrooms were built at twice the price of non-BER classrooms.

Seriously, fuck you people who justify the BER by saying "Oh it wasn't about education or the kids it was about jobs for construction workers". No kidding - fuck you, FUCK YOU!!!!!

Yes Labor blow our money to keep their mates happy and now they lump us with more taxes to keep their mates happy. C'mon you honestly don't think that the flood levy money will go to the flood victims do you? It will go to fat Labor-luvvy bureaucrats as per usual.

[mantra]

A flood levy will give the insurance companies an "out" to meet their obligations. We shouldn't have to underwrite them. I pay $1,000 a year for a modest home and contents - yet in the event of a disaster - the neighbour who pays nothing, gets their home rebuilt by public funds for nothing.

I don't think the average Australian can manage paying any more tax. The cost of living has skyrocketed and those of us who thought we were reasonably comfortable - are no longer that so how are those who are at the bottom already managing? This disaster is affecting all Australians. We have to help Queensland, but surely a larger share of the GST would help - or better still the Pollies Future Slush Fund wouldn't notice a few billion missing. We also need to stand up to the Insurance companies who are already running away from this.

Gillard has only suggested it at this time, but don't let us forget all the levies under Howard - GST, PSO levy, milk levy, Quantas levy, gun buy back levy, Timor levy, oil levy, retail turnover levy etc. etc. etc.

[mantra]

They're too busy ripping down air conditioned classrooms and replacing them with smaller, non-air conditioned classrooms, leaving many children at risk during the hot months.

My generation had no airconditioning or fans in our classrooms when we went to school - but for some reason we're still alive.

[Ethnic]

My generation had no airconditioning or fans in our classrooms when we went to school - but for some reason we're still alive.

Well that's the typical response of miserable old bastards who love to knock younger generations. Interesting that people of your generation embraced air conditioners and made them a permanent feature in homes, schools, cars, shopping centres, theatres, etc. Why embrace progress and technology when we can all sweat in classrooms, hey mantra? Lets do it for Bob Brown and Gaia.

[mantra]

There's no need to be so defensive Ethnic. I just pointed out that aside from the frail and the elderly, it's possible to live without airconditioning, but it's a personal choice obviously and if the kids today have to have it - so be it.

Why are you ranting on about airconditioners anyway? They can easily be installed after a building has been completed. Rather than have new classrooms - would it be better for the kids to stay in the dilapidated, asbestos infested rooms that they've become accustomed to over the decades?

[Outlaw Yogi]

Prepared to abolish Nimrod's most durable legacy, government and tax? ... No .. then get your wallet out and pay up.


Centrelink will catch flood fraud 'mongrels'
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian ... -mongrels/

[Jovial Monk]

It is about time to reverse some of Costello’s tax cuts, even without the floods. That is why the deficits from the GFC are so high. Time to reverse Howard’s middleclass welfare too, incl cutting the last of the Health Care Rebate.

[IQS.RLOW]

I agree.

It will be the quickest way to get these incompetent fucks out on their arse

[Ethnic]

There's no need to be so defensive Ethnic. I just pointed out that aside from the frail and the elderly, it's possible to live without airconditioning, but it's a personal choice obviously and if the kids today have to have it - so be it.

Why are you ranting on about airconditioners anyway? They can easily be installed after a building has been completed. Rather than have new classrooms - would it be better for the kids to stay in the dilapidated, asbestos infested rooms that they've become accustomed to over the decades?

You aren't getting the most basic point - why is a public school paying a certain amount of dollars for a new classroom with minimal features while the private school down the road built a larger classroom with all the features needed for learning and comfort at half the price at what the public school paid? This isn't about airconditioners or asbestos this is about public money being spent on bureaucrats and Labor mates rather than what the money was intended for. It will be the same story for the flood levy.