Anyone else find themselves watching it wondering when you became your parents?

I remember being a kid and my parents used to watch boring old peoples programs like the budget and yet here I am engrossed!

Looks like we got a tax cut. Alright!

And more money for health research!

Yeah, so when is the single income earner going to get a f***ing break I ask?
Nothing personal in this towards any particular breeder however I'm f***ing sick of the handouts that demographic get

They may give more money to health research but when they actually see and get to make use of that money is an entirely different matter.

http://www.smh.com.au/budget-2006/first-report/index.html

http://www.budget.gov.au/2006-07/overview/html/index.htm

Can't make sense of the bloody budget website though :S

We are around $30 better off. Better than a stick in the eye I guess...I think

edit: speeling!

Nothing personal in this towards any particular breeder however I'm f***ing sick of the handouts that demographic get

Cry more fag.

Cry more fag.

Get a job an I'll maybe think that your opinion maybe worth noting (though in all truth I seriously doubt it)

um single tax payers get a lot out of this given the 30% tax rate is increased to $75,000 and the 42% tax rate has been cut to 40% for salaries up $150,000, the the top tax rate has been cut from 47% - 45% for wages exceeding $150,000. what more do you want?

ps hi from parliament house xD

last edited by infi at 22:48:08 09/May/06

Nothing personal in this towards any particular breeder however I'm f***ing sick of the handouts that demographic get

As is stands there arent enough people around to keep this place going when we want to retire (or so i hear)

Im more than happy for this country to throw away the jimmy hats and get shaggin', I just wish the bogans didnt outnumber the regular people in the birth stakes

$30/w, that'll cover the rising fuel costs.

its not up to the government to cover the rising fuel costs. it is up to people to earn more money...

$500ish/year. Whoopdif***ingdoo.

also

Anyone else find themselves watching it wondering when you became your parents?

this might have something to do with you having a kid

Stuff the tax cuts... fix up the health system.

Get a job an I'll maybe think that your opinion maybe worth noting (though in all truth I seriously doubt it)

I stand correct. Cry more Fag.

I have a job.

terrorism isnt a job

(though in all truth I seriously doubt it)

Hey, wadda ya know, I was right, your opinion isn't worth noticing

Stuff the tax cuts... fix up the health system.

Beattie said that's done now. Haha

$30ish extra / week for me and same for my wife. 3 grand total a year, that's better than a kick in the goolies.

um single tax payers get a lot out of this given the 30% tax rate is increased to $75,000 and the 42% tax rate has been cut to 40% for salaries up $150,000, the the top tax rate has been cut from 47% - 45% for wages exceeding $150,000. what more do you want?

What he said. If you're a high income earner you're a winner this time. Good to see he's fixing up the super things as well as the Murray issues.

Good on you Pete, you've just bought yourself my vote =)

I'm happy, lower tax rate for me!

i loved one of the writeups, it listed the winners and the losers from the budget, with the losers including tax cheats, our enemies and party drug users.

oooo, those party drug users are evil I tells ya (they're mostly labor voters anyways so who gives a s***)

^ I would have thought they'd be more green or democrat than labour

I still think the country would be far better served with myself installed as a somewhat Benevolent Dictator

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/tax/calculator.htm

see how much you save with the new tax cut.
i save 10 bucks :)

awesome, extra $9.81 a week for me

:(

bracket creep.

gg

$2.60/week for me. f*** YEAH!!

oh crap, I earn the same as Persay :(

basically anyone from 25k-60k will save that 9.80. its only above that when the normal tax would hit at 45ish cents in the dollar, and now it will be 30 cents a dollar, will there be a bigger amount of money saved.

I save $105.77 per week... that's pretty awesome!

I save $105.77 per week... that's pretty awesome!

Wow, I didn't know people still paid that much $ for crappy VB programmer these days.






;)

hehe, I don't do programming any more. I'm doing project management/business analysis stuff, much more interesting, and I get to tell crappy VB programmers what to do ;)

this is unrelated to the budget but i thought a few would find it interesting. abit bias but interesting.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-466210540567002553&q=mises

Inflation will pwn you all

$9 extra a week, which adds up to $468 less i have to pay at the end of the year (thats right i have to pay tax at the end of the year, i dont get sweet returns or anything)

Yeah man, sweet returns for people under 60k. The price of living hasnt gone up at all, petrol is the same price, so were alll better off arent we.

Why the f*** they didnt cut some of the 50 odd cents a litre of petrol tax they take is beyond me. Not to mention we are now spending more of the budget on military then education.

Makes me proud to be working at the department of finance... mabye i'll go set something on fire.

Makes me proud to be working at the department of finance... mabye i'll go set something on fire.

And cost the taxpayers more money???

Don't worry, i work for the govt too.

Stuff the tax cuts... fix up the health system.

The healthcare system prolly could do with a little bit of work but I still wish ppl would start taking a bit of responsibility for their own health. So many probs are avoidable/controllable by exercising well and eating/drinking reasonable amounts. Most ppl seem to forget this tho...


last edited by Agent 99 at 20:24:41 11/May/06

lovin the tax bracket raises

the problem with cutting the tax on fuel is that it then doesnt rise in line with the worlds rates, screwing up our economy again.

i dont know much about taxes and finances, but i do know if you start tampering with a rising rate on whatever commodity that is the same the world over, you will most likely screw something else in turn

$.58 extra I need to do 3 more hours a week to get $9.80 gay

What would probably happen if we got rid of taxes on petrol would be that it'd go straight into the oil companies/petrol stations pockets. We seem to be perfectly happy paying these prices, why lower them?

Regarding the tax cuts...I'm not sure they were a good idea. If the extra spending money is going to force up interest rates as some people are saying, then all we've really done is wasted a lot of money that could've been spent on infrastructure. Which will hurt later on if (when) the economy falters.

Then again, maybe the extra incentive to put money into super will curtail spending a bit. Or perhaps the Reserve Bank rose interest rates in anticipation of a tax cut. Who knows.

I got sweet f*** all extra!
Hooray for getting a s***ty pay! :D

Haha Agent our health system is f***ed, no amount of personal responsibility (public) can help that

and soon to get nothing. Great planning

Haha Agent our health system is f***ed, no amount of personal responsibility (public) can help that

Australian Bureau of Statistics and common sense says otherwise.

Our health system isn't that bad, I'd rather get sick here than alot of other places.

Libs have been forever trying to effectively push for a voluntary health insurance/funded/privatised american style system and Labor to keep the commonwealth funded system.

Very short simplified possibly-not-100%-accurate story:-

Whitlam introduced Medibank to confront the issue of the disatissfaction of voluntary health schemes. (Labor)
Fraser government tried to make major changes.
Hawke government rejected it.
And Medibank effectively remained and Medicare was then established.

Accidents do happen... and when I split my knee open (exposed knee cap/lacerated tendons)... I had to spend 8 - 9 hours sitting in a crappy room before I could get a 30 minute stitch job done. This is in RBH, luckily it wasn't anything life threatening.

By then, a lot of the flesh had died and yeah.

when govt's give out tax cuts it means there is something horrible that they want to hide from the public view or there is an election coming & they need to boost public opinion. just look how it works! people get another cuppla bucks a week & they go 'w00t! 9bucks!' & no longer care that thier services & rights are stripped away & the general cost of living rises way above the piddling gains they just made.

still... w00t! 9 farqn bucks! :/

*Hands demon the thread winner plaque*

asif anyone would forget the rising cost of living and go woot over 9 bucks

well if there wasn't a tax cut we'd still be paying the higher costs of living.

Give me $9 and we'll see.