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fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Birdstrike posted:

barnababy possibly a canababy

journalism rules

Every article on that website reads like an Onion headline.

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fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Tony Abbott, champion for women

quote:

In a major speech on the eve of International Women's Day, Ms Plibersek described the GST on tampons a "dumb decision". "Twenty years later it's still a dumb decision, and we just have to fix it," she said. "Australia levies GST on tampons but we don't apply it to Viagra. Only a bunch of blokes sitting around a table would come to the conclusion that sanitary pads are anything other than an essential good."

But Mr Abbott disagreed, telling Sydney radio station 2GB this afternoon any such move would be wrong. Joe Hockey, who served as treasurer under Mr Abbott in 2015, said the tax should be lifted and vowed to lobby states and territories to make the change. "My distinguished treasurer was wrong then, and Tanya Plibersek is wrong now," Mr Abbott said today.

"Look, once you start having these sorts of exemptions, where does it end? Where does it end? We have to broaden the tax base, not start carving out politically correct exceptions."

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Mr Abbott, who also served as minister for women after taking office in 2013, said the Liberal Party, "needs to do better when it comes to getting capable women into the Parliament". He said, "targets are fine", but added he was, "very wary of quotas. I think quotas are a problem because then people aren't always thought to be there on merit," he said.

"And look, I'm a little worried about what often sounds like an anti-man agenda."

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 10:48

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

But when is International Men's day whirlpool???

There is no international men�s day because men are oppressed under this matriarchal, gynocentric, feminazi time.....Or possibly it�s on November 19th.

The secret the women oppressing you don�t want you to know!!!!!

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 23:44

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

How many tampons do these men think women use??

The way they�re all carrying on you�d think that 90% of government revenue comes from the gst on tampons.

Forget the companies with turnover in the billions that pay no tax - we�re going to bring the budget back into surplus by keeping the tax on tampons!

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 09:55

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

bandaid.friend posted:

I think Abbott was on radio saying the pad thing is a slippery slope and where does it end etc so of course if you let them take it off pads they'll be taking it off everything

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-07/tony-abbott-tanya-plibersek-at-odds-on-tampon-tax/9524610

GST isn't meant to be on necessities, is it? I'd guess that's where it ends, Tony

Exactly. This same debate happened when gst was introduced.

I remember at the time that they announced that sunscreen would be gst-free. Seems reasonable given we have the highest incidence of melanoma worldwide. I think baby formula was too, but as I didn�t have kids I didn�t pay any attention. Then they announced that condoms were considered an essential good so no gst on them but that tampons etc, were not an essential good so we�d have to pay extra for those.

The idea that products that (almost) every woman between the ages of about 10-12 up to mid-50�s or so use every month is not an essential good is absolutely outrageous.

I�ve spent 18 years feeling bitter about this, as you probably can�t tell from the frothing rant above.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 11:33

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

tithin posted:

It's not about the tax it brings in, it's about showing women their place.

Sorry, heading back to the kitchen now.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 11:34

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

froglet posted:

To elaborate on this - if you were on 50k + super and slaary sacrificed 5k, some employers recalculate your super as if you were on 45k.

Alternatively, they'll say you adding 5k is the same as them adding the 9.5% and won't pay you super.

I hear the government was going to change this with legislation, but in the past year or so you can get around your employer's being cheap jerks by contributing post-tax then filling in a form to declare it so you get a tax deduction.

Definitely keep an eye out for this. When I was looking into salary sacrificing that was one of the points I saw come up a lot. Make sure your agreement with your employer specifically has them paying super on your current salary, not your post-sacrifice salary.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2018 05:30

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

https://twitter.com/samanthamaiden/status/974898531449188352?s=21

It�s gone. What did it say?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2018 07:52

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

ASFA put comfortable yearly costs in retirement at $55-60k per annum. Sounds like he�s doing alright.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2018 10:22

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

I really thought all that Abbott talk was leading up to him announcing that he was joining ON.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 04:06

fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MartinPakulaMP/status/979544512513982464

Following the teachings of noted liar, Jesus Christ, on this sacred day.

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fiery_valkyrie: Mar 26, 2003; I'm proud of you, Bender. Sure, you lost. You lost bad. But the important thing is I beat up someone who hurt my feelings in high school.

Even better

quote:

�I�m the least racist person ever you can get f**ked.�

# ¿ Apr 2, 2018 14:21

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