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CrazyTolradi posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/story-streams/federal-budget-2017/2017-05-09/federal-budget-2017-scott-morrison-reveals-tax-hike/8511344 It's never saved money anywhere it's been tried before. Its a rort to steal public money via testing samples.
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BBJoey posted:Increase housing affordability by increasing demand, that'll do it But there is a glut of apartments.
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:It's never saved money anywhere it's been tried before. Its a rort to steal public money via testing samples.
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CrazyTolradi posted:Interesting to note, but the proposed tax changes for companies weren't in the budget I believe. Probably want the budget to be able to pass this time.
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:It's never saved money anywhere it's been tried before. Its a rort to steal public money via testing samples. It's also about making sure right wing middle / upper class people feel that poor people are being sufficiently punished for being poor.
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CrazyTolradi posted:Interesting to note, but the proposed tax changes for companies weren't in the budget I believe. or were just not announced
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:There will a trial of drug testing for 5000 new welfare recipients. Anyway who tests positive will be placed on a cashless debit card and subject to further tests and possible referrals for treatment. So the question always becomes : If [Cost of Testing] x [Number of Users] > [Amount of money saved] then it's pointless. In Florida a test of 4086 recipients found 108 people drug affected (almost all of it marijuana), and 40 people cancelled the test for unknown reasons. The test cost $30 / person, which was refunded if the test was found to be negative Total cost was $30 x (4086-148) = $118,140 $489 welfare saved per person who failed/skipped the test = $489 x 148 = $72,372 in savings Therefore, the trial cost $45,768. It turns out that welfare users don't have a huge disposable income to buy drugs. Who knew ? But the people who do the testing will pocket a nice big gift from the government, and this is another step towards normalisation of cashless welfare cards.
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quote:Tax rates on tobacco are currently calculated under the assumption that the average cigarette contains 0.8g of tobacco, when actually it’s less than that. This concludes news about the budget you need to know.
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CrazyTolradi posted:Interesting to note, but the proposed tax changes for companies weren't in the budget I believe. quote:The budget delivers mixed fortune for business. Small businesses with turnover of up to $10m will get an extension of the $20,000 instant asset write-off for a further 12 months, and the government will persist with attempting to deliver a tax cut for Australia’s largest corporations, a move which most polls suggest is deeply unpopular. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/09/australia-federal-budget-2017-tax-spending-scott-morrison-promises-better-days-ahead
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Probably want the budget to be able to pass this time.
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Getting even stricter on newstart/job seeker payments - I'm dreading this. Next year I'll be doing my final (6th) year of my course which is a year of pure placement, no classes besides supervision. Its not covered by Austudy and its extremely rare for placements to be paid. Placements are across 4 days with the 5th day being supervision meetings. We got told the best chance we have of income is getting on newstart and then hoping centrelink don't decide to kick us off because we can't accept full time work. Making job seeker appointments will be hard enough let alone if they make this more difficult and have to attend drug testing as well.
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May 9, 2017 11:14
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Abbott is going to be mental tomorrow.
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CrazyTolradi posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/story-streams/federal-budget-2017/2017-05-09/federal-budget-2017-scott-morrison-reveals-tax-hike/8511344 Yeah, I believe that's been the case where they've implemented that in the US. It costs more than it saves and results in loving terrible outcomes for people dealing with substance abuse issues. Another punative measure when it needs to be treated as a public health issue. *Edit* gently caress, well beaten. The Florida example was the one I was thinking of.
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thepokey posted:Getting even stricter on newstart/job seeker payments - I'm dreading this. Next year I'll be doing my final (6th) year of my course which is a year of pure placement, no classes besides supervision. Its not covered by Austudy and its extremely rare for placements to be paid. Placements are across 4 days with the 5th day being supervision meetings. We got told the best chance we have of income is getting on newstart and then hoping centrelink don't decide to kick us off because we can't accept full time work. Making job seeker appointments will be hard enough let alone if they make this more difficult and have to attend drug testing as well. Let me know if you need clean piss.
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Raged posted:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/09/australia-federal-budget-2017-tax-spending-scott-morrison-promises-better-days-ahead
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Raged posted:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/09/australia-federal-budget-2017-tax-spending-scott-morrison-promises-better-days-ahead
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Abbott is going to be mental tomorrow. Checks out, the day ends in "y".
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To add to this - the only change I can see to the CGT is an increase to 60% for affordable housing.
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God i am praying that the defence funding increase leads to my contracting job turning into a full time job
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Let me know if you need clean piss. Well I'm thinking more about making time for extra appointments to jump through hoops to get these payments when I'm still a student, but yeah an extra glass of piss to just bring along and pop on their desk would be grand too actually
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May 9, 2017 11:23
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From now on everytime you go to a Centrelink appointment you should bring a cup full of piss and put it on the desk, even if you weren't asked to.
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Send the piss to scomo. He's the one who is keen on it. Don't ruin some chump on the front lines day.
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$2.1 million will be spend over two years to ban cosmetic testing on animals in Australia from the end of 2018. The government will ban the use of new data on cosmetic ingredients that are derived from animals tests from next year, and develop a voluntary industry code of practise to standardise claims of labels.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:$2.1 million will be spend over two years to ban cosmetic testing on animals in Australia from the end of 2018. I see the ground work for a new work for the dole scheme
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So ScoMo wants to fund the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail network, but which gauge will they use?
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:So ScoMo wants to fund the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail network, but which gauge will they use? How incompatible are railway gauges in Australia?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:How incompatible are railway gauges in Australia? Very. However most of the lines connecting each state are on a standard gauge these days. However most metropolitan railway lines use different gauges in each state.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:So ScoMo wants to fund the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail network, but which gauge will they use? The one that's faster, cheaper, and more affordable.
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JBP posted:But there is a glut of apartments. you can build as many apartments as you want, if investors think that they'll make a profit regardless of how much they cost you'll never manage to fulfil non-investor demand suppose you give half of potential buyers an extra $1 million to go towards buying a house to make it 'easier' to enter the market. all that happens is sellers raise their prices by $1 million, the potential buyers who received the $1 million are no better off than before, and those who didn't receive the $1 million are even further away from home ownership. I'm an idiot so tell me if this is a retarded analogy
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You Am I posted:Very. Melbourne to Adelaide to Darin is standard gauge, Perth to Adelaide to Sydney is standard gauge, that should be enough to settle it; the rolling stock wouldn't need to share lines with metro systems anyway. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 11:58 on May 9, 2017 |
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NTRabbit posted:Melbourne to Adelaide to Darin is standard gauge, Perth to Adelaide to Sydney is standard gauge, that should be enough to settle it; the rolling stock wouldn't need to share lines with metro systems anyway. whose standard? starkebn fucked around with this message at 12:08 on May 9, 2017 |
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