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Bobby
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Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Thu May 14, 2026 9:23 pm

Budget reply tonight: Angus Taylor -
He did well.

Immigration control -
depending on houses available -
Sarah is being rude to him now on ABC 20.
She keeps interrupting him on every sentence.

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Thu May 14, 2026 9:23 pm

I contend that both Labor and Liberal still have had
a secret deal to welcome uncontrolled mass immigration of millions of people
when they know there is nowhere for them to live,
and they don't care about young Australians who will never be able to afford a home - no matter how good a job they get.

I suppose Angus couldn't admit that but
he knows it's true and he has been a part of it for years.
It's been a Labor/Liberal policy for 30 years.

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Thu May 14, 2026 9:59 pm

Angus Taylor Budget Response Speech | 7NEWS



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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by tllwd » Fri May 15, 2026 8:25 am

Talk is cheap. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Fri May 15, 2026 8:37 am

tllwd wrote:
Fri May 15, 2026 8:25 am
Talk is cheap. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

All politicians are professional liars -
you can't trust anything they say.

They all dodge questions in question time in parliament.
The usual method is to talk about what the opposition did instead
of answering the question.
Albo did that yesterday.

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Fri May 15, 2026 2:13 pm

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne ... 1a008475f0


Jim Chalmers has been accused of burying a hidden “death duty” in the budget
despite taking inheritance taxes off the table minutes after his speech on Tuesday.

his budget imposed a minimum 30 per cent tax rate on income generated by inherited assets

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Black Orchid » Fri May 15, 2026 6:09 pm

Bobby wrote:
Fri May 15, 2026 2:13 pm
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne ... 1a008475f0


Jim Chalmers has been accused of burying a hidden “death duty” in the budget
despite taking inheritance taxes off the table minutes after his speech on Tuesday.

his budget imposed a minimum 30 per cent tax rate on income generated by inherited assets
He can shove that where the sun don't shine.

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Fri May 15, 2026 7:24 pm

Black Orchid wrote:
Fri May 15, 2026 6:09 pm
Bobby wrote:
Fri May 15, 2026 2:13 pm
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne ... 1a008475f0


Jim Chalmers has been accused of burying a hidden “death duty” in the budget
despite taking inheritance taxes off the table minutes after his speech on Tuesday.

his budget imposed a minimum 30 per cent tax rate on income generated by inherited assets
He can shove that where the sun don't shine.

It's socialism - when they run out of money they create new taxes.

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Fri May 15, 2026 8:03 pm

People are losing their jobs:


I know what goes on at the higher levels in companies.
the bosses sit around a table at least once a year and work out how they
can retrench people to lower staff numbers.
They point out productive people and take away their human resources.
That way they can get one person to do the job of 2 or more people.


In my last job I had at times up to 5 people helping me
but after more than 5 years they had all been slowly retrenched.
Even 2 people in the inwards/outwards goods area - the store -
were retrenched too -
so I had to handle all inwards and outwards shipping of whatever related to me.
3 secretaries in the company were retrenched too so I had to
do at least a day per week of such duties.
The MD kept his secretary.
The engineers who provided technical help were also retrenched
as they didn't have their main projects anymore - cancelled -
and I did a lot of technical documentation - another day per week for me.
We had two IT specialists and they both left due to stress -
the company hired one person to replace both of them -
he ended up working late every night
and often on the weekends - all free overtime for the company -
but he had a wife, kids to support and a mortgage to pay -
so he didn't complain.

Companies work on a skeleton staff and then retrench more people.
Everyone is under stress and you can't meet the deadlines they set
so you are set up for failure due to lack of staff.

Meanwhile the managing director gets a pay rise
as he has reduced the wage bill.

I spoke to an accountant at a company before that and he
said there were over 20 taxes that the company had to pay -
including payroll tax and land tax.
It was just so expensive to employ anyone.

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Re: Budget reply tonight

Post by Bobby » Fri May 15, 2026 11:10 pm

I have actually seen retrenchments get so bad that whole, good,
profit making sections of a company have been closed down
as they were so nobbled they couldn't function anymore.
The company lost money and the workers lost their jobs -

such was the eagerness to retrench people. :WTF

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