Wow here I am thinking about how much of a douche our Prime Minister is for cutting funding from the military (approx 30 million) from this year's budget. Introduce a GST (Goods and Services Tax) like Howard did to us? Tax the crap out of rich people and lessen the tax grip on the middle/lower working classes?
And that too. How else does government make their revenue? A world without taxes means you cannot have roads, paramedics, etc. As much as the idea sounds nice to be not taxed, it's not how it works. You give something to the government so the government can give something back to the people who pay the taxes.
Some of you guys are being silly. Private industry could take over every service the government currently provides. Now, that's not a scenario I support (it's actually kind of disconcerting), but the notion that the world as we know it would come crashing to a halt without taxes is a little ridiculous.
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I honestly don't know, and that's the part that concerns me. Even without federal involvement, it stands to reason that we'd still have a lot of the amenities we've come to expect. Businesses need roads and firefighters, too, regardless of profit incentive. It's in everyone's best interest to keep the machine moving. But here's the problem I have with this scenario: Where's the structure? The oversight? The idea of each individual community maintaining infrastructure and emergency services as it sees fit frankly sounds like one giant clusterfuck.
Heh, because positive change has occurred with the GOP in control of the House? Not what the polls and the record show.
I'm sure community based programs such as my Women's Housing Scheme would totally be okay on it's own without federal funding when I live only in a regional country town. As much as I would like that, it wouldn't be okay. Even the Family Support Network wouldn't be able to provide the services it provides without the government backing their schemes and projects up. As for the GST, I don't see why the American government would not introduce their version of it. I mean, they would make a fortune out of taxing goods and services, as do ours. Sure it threw small business off for a few years with their tax revenue etc. but think what the government can give back to the American citizens if they just followed John Howard's module. I mean, fuck, we've got so many taxes that even we complain about it. National Relief Tax for the Queensland Economy. Goods and Services Tax. Income Tax. And we managed to avoid recession as a nation.
You never did explain what you meant in the other thread, and seeing as that was a pretty big indication of how you view world issues I feel the need to bring it up, as I feel you have a very loose grasp on world events and history in general. How did you get 'shocked and outraged' from anything I said?
And you've got a pretty loose grip on the LPA rule use of the R word as I recall. I believe I did explain it, saying that at the start of the war it was highly compared to the Vietnam war and that remark had nothing to do with topic. In fact, I brought up Vietnam several times and was only brought up on the last remark. So you've got a loose sight for my references. And now back on topic, hur dur.
Yeah, from what I do know of Ron Paul I would probably never ever vote for him if I was American, but it's still not really fair to say something like that.