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Re: State Elections - LP - 05-25-2023
(05-25-2023, 01:07 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:I'm just waiting for Dan to sneak another pollies pay rise through parliament during the middle of the night....I suspect Politician payrises are inevitable, as long as Corporates keep making mega wages and bonuses off scalping big companies and staff it's inevitable you'll need to pay politicians more to get people interested in the public service gig!
Have a look this week, QANTAS CEO Joyce gets a massive payday, off the back of COVID redundancies and huge airfare rises because if they didn't they would go bust! Instead they miraculously end up with a record all time profit and Joyce hits the jackpot!
That is what we are competing with when we call for better people in politics.
Re: State Elections - Mav - 05-25-2023
Getting rid of the payroll tax exemption for private schools could have devastating consequences. Maybe plans to build that 3rd Olympic size pool will have to be deferred or maybe that new radio-telescope and planetarium won’t be built. Or perhaps Scotch College won’t be able to sign up Alistair Clarkson to coach the 1st XVIII. Quelle horreur !
Re: State Elections - madbluboy - 05-25-2023
Well the cost will be passed onto the parents who will definitely up the rent on their rental properties.
Re: State Elections - dodge - 05-25-2023
While the pollies must do some lobbying/have some influence, there is an 'independent' tribual that sets pollies pay.
https://www.vic.gov.au/members-parliament-salaries-allowances
This was set up some time ago - not sure by who.
Re: State Elections - LP - 05-25-2023
(05-25-2023, 04:45 AM)dodge date Wrote:This was set up some time ago - not sure by who.Is that for both Federal and State or just Federal?
I thought it was set up by Howard for Federal only.
Re: State Elections - Mav - 05-25-2023
Or maybe the schools won’t build the 3rd Olympic size pool or that new radio-telescope and planetarium or won’t sign up Alistair Clarkson to coach the 1st XVIII.
But it seems the landlords have already factored in the new budget by imposing extortionate increases in rents. The thing that I don’t understand is why the landlords went big on rent rises in NSW when they weren’t even subject to the Victorian State Budget …
I guess the best remedy is to decrease taxes on landlords and give them more tax breaks like negative gearing. We know landlords are really hurting right now and it must break their hearts to Jack up rents as they’re doing now. Surely, reducing their expenses would see them fighting over who will decrease rents by the most. And it’s great to see that they’re already being given a chop out: Landlord tax breaks to exceed $100b, Australian Financial Review.
Re: State Elections - RiverRat - 05-25-2023
(05-24-2023, 07:23 AM)tonyo link Wrote:The previous Liberal government 'managed' the economy by spending it on absolutely nothing.
And doing nothing
Re: State Elections - LP - 05-25-2023
(05-25-2023, 04:55 AM)Mav date Wrote:And it’s great to see that they’re already being given a chop out: Landlord tax breaks to exceed $100b, Australian Financial Review.It's just horrendous isn't it.
At the moment so many are having adult kids move back in, we aren't talking teenagers, but late 20 or even 30 somethings with fulltime employment who either can't afford a mortgage or can't find a house to rent that they can afford! Qualified Tradies, Nurses, Salespeople, even the self-employed are being screwed over by soaring mortgage and rental prices.
Something is about to break, if I was dependant on cash flow from heavily financed property portfolios I'd be liquidating some assets and getting into the black as soon as possible.
COVID made things horribly worse, many inner city well-to-dos headed into suburbia and surrounding regions buying "cheap" investment properties for temporary accommodation. They renovated droving up the property prices, and now demand high rentals beyond the remit of the locals they originally displaced.
Re: State Elections - ElwoodBlues1 - 05-25-2023
(05-25-2023, 04:40 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:Well the cost will be passed onto the parents who will definitely up the rent on their rental properties.Or they will send their kids back to the State School system and drain more resources from the needy families who need support.
Of course what people dont realise is that the Vic budget will cost the federal government almost $3 billion in revenue over the next four years, and more than $7 billion over a decade, as landlords and business owners write off the tax rises imposed on them.
So where is that shortfall in money coming from....answer.... the mug public taxpayer, wouldnt be surprised to see the GST go up either as Albo also had to fork out as well for his share of Dans Infrastructure builds in Victoria.
From the Australian: "Tasmania is seeking to lure Victorian businesses in the wake of the Andrews government’s ‘horror’ high-taxing state budget, as it promises to hand down a more benign budget of its own".
Re: State Elections - DJC - 05-25-2023
(05-25-2023, 04:53 AM)LP link Wrote:Is that for both Federal and State or just Federal?
I thought it was set up by Howard for Federal only.
The Commonwealth and all States and Territories have bodies that determine remuneration for parliamentarians. The Commonwealth remuneration committee was established under the Whitlam Government in 1973.
The Victorian tribunal determines remuneration for MPs, local government councillors and senior public service executives.