I am sick of the government and tax academics gaslighting us on this 30% minimum CGT. Their argument is that people are engaging in some kind of "tax avoidance" by accumulating assets through their lives, deferring those gains and selling near retirement when their marginal tax rate is much lower.
This is a spectacularly stupid argument. People sell assets later in life not because they are engaging in some kind of elaborate tax dodge. Most of the time it's because that's when they need the money. This is basically just how long-term savings works.
Similarly, if someone starts a small business and then sells it later in life to fund their living expenses, they are not engaging in tax avoidance. They were just deferring consumption. This stuff should be obvious.
Chris Uhlmann delivers a forensic takedown of Australia's energy transition — arguing that for the first time in human history, a civilisation has chosen to move backwards to inferior energy sources.
From his grandfather's Queensland childhood to the moon landing, Uhlmann traces the extraordinary wealth fossil fuels created, then asks why Australia is dismantling the system that built it.
@AlboMP Really helpful. Only 28, 500,000 to go for equity and your socialist nirvana.. stop pissing on the public back and telling them it's raining ☔️
Mike Brown was fired the day after calling out De’Aaron Fox for making a stupid play back in 2024 that lost them the game lmao
Turns out bro was RIGHT the whole time 😂🤣
Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”
“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”
Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.
“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”
“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”
“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”
“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”
“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”
“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”
This database contains more than 300 peer-reviewed papers that question key pillars of the climate narrative.
The papers cover temperature attribution, solar variability, greenhouse gas physics, ocean chemistry, and sea level change.
A 2024 Nature paper, for example, finds no detectable surge in the rate of global warming beyond the 1970s.
While a William Happer study examines atmospheric radiative transfer and finds additional CO2 produces diminishing warming due to absorption band saturation.
Research by Judith Curry highlights large uncertainties in sea level projections.
While other studies examine solar variability and natural circulation patterns as major climate drivers.
Many papers question climate model reliability and attribution methods that link modern warming to human CO2 emissions.
At the very least, these 300 plus studies show that climate science remains an active field of debate, not the 'settled science' often presented to the public.
Scott Adams was a great admirer of @elonmusk. He's the one person Scott asked me to contact for the biography for whom I have no contact information.
So... Mr. Musk, if you're able to see this, kindly reach out?
Many thanks.
One Nation climate policy.
Close down CC dept saving $40b pa
Stop all renewables saving $50b pa.
Saving farms,national parks,wildlife etc.
Build low emission coal with infrastructure already in place.
World emissions unchanged.
I'd vote for that.
Forty years ago Keating told Australia it was becoming a banana republic.
Reduced spending. Reduced debt. Reduced taxes. Reduced red tape. Lower tariffs.
The result was decades of lower inflation and rising real wages.
Chalmers quotes Keating and does the opposite.