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How come all of the ABC's videos on CZcams have comments turned off when talking about immigration and other social issues? While Sky News doesn't, to me that says a lot.

How come all of the ABC's videos on CZcams have comments turned off when talking about immigration and other social issues?

The problem is everyone with any IQ knows they wont reduce other taxes if they increase GST to 15-20%! It will just be another money grab to accelerate the wealth transfer

capital gains tax is fundamentally unfair to savers

endorsing a higher gst cmon bro wake up. Bitcoin will change your mindsets matter of time

For my generation, buying a house is out of the question. I invest in crypto, so that maybe I can buy a home. But! I take all that risk just to get a house, and government taxes me to oblivion. However, if you won the birth lottery of the boomers, you got a less competitive labor market, cheap housing and the greatest investment tax conditions in the history of civilisation surrounding property investment. A property investor makes way more return than I do in crypto, pays less tax, and government does everything it can to protect the property investment class. Yet, the ladder has been pulled up behind them. And no doubt, when I’m ready to retire, my generation will be paying a lot more tax on our super than boomers currently do. Anyway, my overall point is, the tax system around property and the protection of it as an investment class… well it’s no where near a free market. It’s a trough at which older generations have gorged themselves at the expense of their offspring. Now we have to take extreme risk and be taxed to death for it. In fact my taxes are subsidising the greedy generations property investment. Ain’t that a great deal!

I as an European in Australia call the tax system here "Robin Hood style system and Cannbera is a Sherwood. They steal from you every earned cent, this system is not fair at all, the hard work is punished and it is not worth to work to much ot own to much in this southern cross colony!

They'll increase the GST and not cut personal income taxes. They'll just grow government spending again with stupid socialist programs.

I love watching 40 % of my wage go to the goverment and watch it litalay get flushed dowen the toilet the goverment dosent seam to be listaning and im watching peopls lives get flushed dowen the toilet

40% tax bassically half your pay then add tax on cigarettes beer gst and fuel tax , inflation in two years nearly double yeah what’s the point might as well give the government 60% tax cause that what it really is ? Take take take give peanuts

Voting either ALP, Libs or Greens / Teal will be voting for more of the same. We need a complete change in direction.

The government really just needs to cut spending. Increasing GST to reduce income tax sounds good on paper but in reality they will implement a 15% GST, then 5, 6 years down the line increase income tax anyway to deal with their rampant spending.

1/3 to 1/2 of wages are tax, the whole system is a joke

By 2030, the NDIS will be costing us 10 billion a year (currently 8.5 billion). That's 2x the annual cost of our entire medicare system and 3x our annual defence budget. 1 in 3 jobs created last year was an NDIS job. Our taxes are being hosed into the ether, pushing up inflation and luring thousands of productive workers to become extremely overpaid adult babysitters at the taxpayers expense. We're becoming an economy where half the population is elderly and disabled and the other half is looking after them at the expense of the dwindling entrepreneurial productive sector. Or they’re landlords lol

Doesn't mention the tax on savings caused by Gov & RBA printing. 20% stealth tax over 4 years on all savings/super which were taxed when earned. 100s of Billions in purchasing power stolen.

Boot out the bureaucracy its a hemorrhaging cancer on this country.

Look, we can just set a variable SGC rate so that every worker cops it, but the money remains theirs, just in a Super account to tame inflation. If people know they get to keep their money, they are not going to be so outraged when inflation hits, and in a sense inflation then helps them build wealth.

As long as this country continues with this stupid democratic form of government and the voters continue to elect the dumbest people in the country to parliament, the country will always be in a mess.

The Economy is having a Winfield 😮😮😂

Flat Rate Income Tax NOW

What is driving inflation then? Cashed up over 50's who have had massive increases in wealth via property prices, landlords raising rents and corporations ripping us off. But the blunt approach of RBA once again bludgeons the poor worker not the wealth.

So where’s the increase in inflation coming from?

Reform will not come. We are slaves to foreign interests.

Why not start with putting GST on Nutrigrain? (get rid of all gst exemptions)

All my working life i had to pay up to 47% income tax , NOW i don't earn a wage anymore , This Dog want's me to Pay High GST ! He is a Smooth talking Dog , IMHO .

They will increase gst and keep the income unchanged. Come on they've done it before

If you increase GST to target the wealthy retired, they'll simply take more overseas holidays🤷

The baby boomer generation had to face high inflation and mortgage interest rates that went as high as 21% during the 1980s. To say that only today's mortgage holders are doing it tough, is simply amnesia from Leith.

only immigrants should pay tax as they make up 90% of out population thanks to labor, except none of them work

Well said thanks 🙏🙏🙏

Yep, but then if you compensate Aged Pensioners with a paid off house + under $1million in assets GST compensation we forget that 80% of pension age 65/67 (soon to be 70) year olds remain eligible for Aged Pension even with tax free super/or compounding, then we are paying them twice and its not clear how they would stop spending when they get deemed on term deposit savings not 5% (they get) but around 2.5% and continue getting 50% off council rates, water rates, car registration, bulk billing and $7 medicines and so on it goes in the era of Superannuation. Many other things that GST tax to start with. State Concessions Cap subsidised healthcare to under 70s Cap private health insurance at under 70s Turn off State Govt Senior's Concessions Many others, whole list. All of that isnt offered to working age households.

10:40 Stamp duty is proving to be a stunning cash cow for some states. It's mental how much it costs to move house these days. It's close to a full years income to move house in Brisbane (assuming median house price). Likely more in Melbourne.

Thanks for doing these vids Leith. Keep up the message! It's getting through. Slowly but surely.

I’ve always thought I’d have had a more fulfilling life if I had just went on the dole at 18 at 47 I’m not really sure it’s been worth it so far

why not more tax on oil/gas & resources

Core inflation: Jan 3.8%. Feb 3.9%. Mar 4.0%. Apr 4.1%. Not an ideal set of numbers. Not to mention the housing market still going mental. Time to raise rates. Or reduce immigration. That would also fix things.

The tax system is not designed to be fair to ordinary people we have always known that...

Reduce income taxes for lower income earners, raise GST to compensate. Fairest way in consumer led economy

37c to 45c on the dollar is theft. The harder you work, the more they take to misuse.

Big supporter of your views Leithvo - somehow you advocating for Norway style taxation of Australian resources will not go down well with Alan Jones and his mates in the mining industry! But you are 100% correct and the conservative cabal (Abbott, Murdoch, Dutton) need to own up to their policy failures of the early 2010s when they campaigned - hard - against Resource Rent Taxes.

Australians are too stupid

NO GST RISE

Australia is getting destroyed by massive immigration!!!

One other problem I don’t hear enough about is population density. All these people coming in to a country where the greatest proportion of its population lives in 3 cities, yet does not seek to expand. Where’s the plan to build up new cities, ramp up industry that people desire to work in outside of the metropolis 🙏

Labor can’t be trusted on anything. Just a pack of spineless traitors.

Possibly the worst answer I've seen from any Australian parliamentarian to any question and that is an outstanding achievement. Asked a question about migration numbers. Answer: Poverty is bad, bitch about big business... proceed with an open boarders rant that would be music to the ears of big business. The canonical useful idiot.

Don't look at N "Hold My Beer" Z, Aussies, because in fairly short order it may be a failed state to your west, in no small part as a result of enacting many of the policies that Australia has to a greater extreme.

Greens love giving false hope to the poor while they screw them upside down. Think of it. Many migrants come in with substantial savings, no HEX/Uni debt, no credit card debts, squeaky clean credit score. They will of course have a lot higher borrowing power. It will be difficult for most Australians to outbid them. (Oh Greens also frown upon having caring mom & dad's helping, thats evil in their books). In short, the greens' ideologies will hurt the poor more and more. They just pretend they care, but in the end, they love to divide and conquer.

I was a homestay host for many years, up until covid. Most couldn'd speak English, however they were still enrolled at universities and many other colleges.

Dutton’s policy is rubbish. Not even close to doing anything to solve the problem.