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@TheKouk Your entire argument relies on the premise that money that is taxed is taken out of the economy.

Governments spend tax dollars (and then some) in the same economy that individuals do.

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@JEChalmers Not indexing tax brackets is theft.

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@brobson_politic It’s proposed for property only, not shares.

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@jmil400 Is this satire?

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@TonyShepherd4 His comments are clearly directed at people who "hate our way of life". Are you implying the entire migrant population do so?

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@ChristyDanFan Do you understand what “17,000 people lower than the government had forecast” means?

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@BenPhillips_ANU What does this have to do with Australian citizens opinions about their preferred population and level of migration?

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@TheKouk Any updates?

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@JEChalmers You’ve been treasurer for 4 years - when will you take responsibility for the condition of the economy?

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@FurkanGozukara You are a retard

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what if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers.

if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs on farms, we’d have very expensive food, no industrial revolution, and a shitty standard of living for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the automobile, we’d have lost the economic explosion that arose from highways, lower cost transportation, and countless networked industries. if you had done this with the emergence of the computer and the internet, your entire district would still be based on an economy of oranges and plums.

humanity’s ability to compete, organize, and carry itself forward is a magical miracle. in every truly free society, tech evolution has improved the lives of absolutely everyone. in every society where a government stood up to create barriers and gates to tech evolution in the name of “workers rights”, standards of living went into a freefall.

your view is luddite at best and authoritarian at its heart. limiting freedom of choice, controlling the rights of workers and capital providers, is the core activity of socialism and will cause unbelievable unintended damage. well-intentiined, sure, but examining the consequences and n-th order effects, it’s clear how this model deeply harms workers, employment standards, wage growth etc.

i urge you to deeply study the social and economic history of technology evolutions, speak to folks in your district, and avoid the socialist trap the Dem party seems to be swirling into…

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@DarcyAmaroo “We have budget surpluses and the debt is being paid down”… here is page 6 of the March 2025 Federal Budget showing the exact opposite.

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@hughriminton @GrumpyOLSoldier Hey Hugh, if NYT acted entirely lawfully, what’s the problem with a lawsuit? They should win and Trump will lose.

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@QuentinDempster @sussanley Isn’t it better that politicians stick to their principles and have healthy disagreements, rather than fall in line with whatever their party leader decides at the time?

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@realStevenWalk @clairlemon Being politically principled means you stick to your principles at the expense of switching sides, not stick with your side at the expense of your principles.

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A good reminder that being an expert in one domain does not make you an expert in another. Apparently the economic principle of supply and demand is a myth when it comes to housing…

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@KosSamaras If there were two BMW M8s for every one Australian, the price of BMW M8s in Australia would plummet.

That is how supply and demand works.

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@ClareONeilMP Terrible policy that will inevitably drive prices up even further.

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@Lisa9Sophia And yet unemployment is down to 4.2% in July, go figure.

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@DavidPocock Fair enough to call for an increase in Australian research funding.

It makes no sense to expect that from a foreign nation though.