💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social

Free thinker, atheist, lefty! Studied Anthropology/Sociology! Irish/Australian, self-funded retiree, still CPSU union member! RTs not necessarily endorsement

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@suzamaroo JFC!!!! What a society to live in!!!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

The far-right is rising, but so are the people who will stop it. I just pledged to never vote One Nation. Will you do the same? https://t.co/tSgBOXZycC

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@Suzierizzo1 A good example of how people think that they can speak crap to others and then try to blame them for their “nastiness & rudeness”!!!!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

Crikey Mate: Aussies love beer, beaches & swearing, but we like a bit of... https://t.co/v43yAD0s43 via @YouTube

New All About Australia Channel!!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@MikeCarlton01 Does he realise what works Luther went on to publish in his later life ie "On the Jews and their Lies" (1543)? This book was on display during Nuremberg Rallies? He seems to have not research this well IMO!!!!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@MichaelBlistok @maximumwelfare @WhitefordPeter I remember when the CES, DSS & CRS had panels about getting people on DSP to return to work! Reviews on medical issues & medical decisions about how many hours people on DSP could work pw. I wonder if they are bringing that back? There were some mutual obligations then too!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@maximumwelfare @WhitefordPeter This is basically a return to Paul Keating's "Working Nation" When there were 3 tiers of CES assistance! Youth Allowance, Newstart, and Mature Allowance for older Jobseekers and subsequent management of their "situation"!! Interesting to see what else comes back?

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@DrewPavlou Just because laws “change” does not mean that an action by someone was or was not a crime! Matrimonial rape was always rape, murder was always murder! Just because a law changed does not make it different to the victim, it just makes it “punishable“ by societies who admit it!

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Bludger Bridget’s at it again. @senbmckenzie. Snouts in the trough #67543982.

https://t.co/2wXGw4qlfC

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@lesstenny Unfunny!

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

CRYING REAL ESTATE AGENT - These boots were made for crying in:

Budget tax realities, less the bullshit.

Here’s a clip from the ABC with a real estate agent whinging about the budget tax changes.
So, to set the record straight, let’s imagine:

→A lady, a real estate agent (not unlike the one in the video), and

→Me, earning $300,000 a year on a salary, no trusts, no loopholes.
Let’s look at the reality of what this ABC report’s 60s-boots real estate lady says:

She says:
"It’s cracking down on small business owners and the poor people that are trying to support the country to employ people."

Translation:
"Wah, the government wants me to pay tax like everyone else!"

Here’s what she doesn’t say:

She uses trusts to split her income, so she pays a lower marginal rate on the total income.

→Two of her kids, 17 years old, on an overseas holiday, not working in the business, receive a portion of that income. So, she pays less tax than a normal wage earner, like me on $300k at an effective rate of 47%.

→She’s whinging because the tax on her trust distributions might go up to 30%. Cry me a river.
And what about her BMW?

Paid for by the company, so it’s a pre-tax deduction, reducing her company’s taxable income.

Me? I pay for my fucking car out of after-tax income. No deduction for me.

She then says:

"I have to now sit back as a business owner and ask myself, do I want my children to come in and take over my business? I mean, what am I in business for if I'm paying more tax?"

Reality check:
You’re not paying more tax than the average salary earner. You’re in business to make a lot more money and use trusts to avoid paying the same taxes as everyone else.

You still have a business to sell if you’re any good at it. The rest of us don’t get to write off our cars or split our income with our kids on holiday.
Stop whinging.

Bottom line:
If you don’t like paying tax, maybe don’t earn so much. Or, here’s a novel idea; pay your fair share like the rest.

"These boots were made for walking, all over the average taxpayer"

Off you fuck.
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Notes about our example in replies >

*For transparency, the writer owns and has owned multiple businesses, used trusts and knows THE REALITY of this. We understand the ACTUAL reality rather than the myths and lying hype.

[Nat Factor ⭐️💜 @StuddertNatalie]

Young men in your 20’s please watch this. ✊

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@Old_But_Gold50s Up to the 19th C most of what you showed was “elite women’s“ clothing! What did the ordinary women wear?

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@4HF_B1 Did she have reduction surgery??

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@MikeCarlton01 Did he say this before or after the US evoking the spectre of Avignon on Pope Leo??? Does he see Leo as Boniface Viii and start a RC schism????? Interesting!!!!!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@ccpwillbanu @Mollyploofkins I was about to ask, "who is he"? Everyone know the "Boss"!!!

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

Royal Commission into the Killing of Australian Women and Girls - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/zSHE9fHCuM via @ChangeAUS

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@celticfm985 Yep that’s me! Discriminated against for an accident of birth & parents decision to emigrate! Am from NI so will get an Irish one!!!! Why would I pay the UK to discriminate against me? @ukinaustralia @10DowningStreet

[💧🌱 Gerri Dee @gerridee.bsky.social @RangerGinger]

@pennytreyvaud @ABCaustralia Yes, as one I feel discriminated against for an accident of birth and parents choice to emigrate!!! @ABCaustralia @10DowningStreet @ukinaustralia @uk