Comments on: Luxury car tax increase defeated in the Senate

By: SuperCujo

SuperCujo — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:30:02 +0000

The reason why Howard and Co managed to get surpluses every budget is that they were slowly draining money from the system (health and education) or not increasing the funding with inflation and population growth. Easy to create a surplus when you are giving out less money.

By: Richprik

Richprik — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:55:51 +0000

Whats the deal taxing so called luxury items – why do the rich have to pay for the poor. The have worked had yaers to get the trappings (necessities of life.).

Whu should I pay more for my new Porsche, so the extra can be dished out to some low life on the dole, who cant be bother working, and just complains about the so called rich.

Maybe they should tax people more if you dont work – might be a bit difficult in though.

By: Stone

Stone — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:54:15 +0000

Stevo thats an amusing comment about pensioners considering not too many pensioners are too happy with Rudd right now considering the way he has neglected them completely in the most recent budget.

Also why do we need MORE taxes? Howard and Co, were managing fine with large surpluses, the reason all these taxes go in now is that they can cover their asses when they screw up the budgets. Just like the useless labour idiots here in WA. Haven’t brought a single project in on budget or on time.

By: Stevo the Devo

Stevo the Devo — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:06:14 +0000

anti-spam word ‘bentley’ – how appropriate

Good one Fielding – you’ve saved yourself a few bucks on your next car so you can drive down to the local supermarket and laugh at all the poor old pensioners struggling to afford the necessities of life. Or drive by houses where families are being evicted because they can’t afford to pay their mortgage.

Maybe your party should be called Families Last.

By: SuperCujo

SuperCujo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:39:24 +0000

I pulled 1250 as a weight that is the bottom of the small car segment. It doesn’t have to be 1250kg, it could be higher or lower. Just base the tax on weight.

And if taxes were removed from everything we buy (cigarettes deserve the extra tax), income taxes would have to go up. Alternatively, they could remove all income tax and put the GST on everything (maybe increase the rate too) and then only the people who buy stuff pay taxes. It would make the tax system a whole heap easier.

By: Devil666

Devil666 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:12:40 +0000

SuperCujo: first off where do you pull 1250KG from? Thats less that a damn Scuderia! On a completely different topic, have you ever paid taxes before? If you did, you would know that they come from OUR INCOME! They have already taxed the money we earn, and there’s a 10% tax on everything we buy! No one is suggesting removing taxation completely (see how I haven’t resorted to sarcasm?), merely stop over-taxing us on items that are already over inflated (diesel, alcohol, cigarettes, cars). With these dam Carbon taxes coming in the government literally plans to charge us for living and breathing (We emit carbon dioxide, get it? Ha!).

Point is, Rudd had better put some of that surplus in the bank because something tells me the economy shan’t react favorably to his poor decisions.

By: SuperCujo

SuperCujo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:23:50 +0000

Hey Stone, how do you suggest the government raises funds for health, defence, educations, pensions, etc? Replace taxes with a voluntary contribution?

I’m sure that would work. /sarcasm

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:04:21 +0000

Kim Carr was saying the government wants to reintroduce the tax for a vote in about a month’s time. I assume they’ll tweak it a bit, or maybe they’re just angling for a double dissolution…

By: Stone

Stone — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:15:00 +0000

Thats ok, I am sure Rudd will work out another way to tax us all.
The amusing thing of course is that when you see binge drinking beer/spirits (shots) are just as much a culprit as “alcopops” yet Rudd wouldn’t dare tax beer, instant election loss.

Never mind lets find another way to target those evil rich people, we don’t want them in Australia spending their money. Lets scare them off overseas by over taxing them.

By: iamthestig

iamthestig — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:51:11 +0000

Unfortunately the “Luxury” car is a easy target. As a real luxury item, we should be looking at boats and the other trappings of the wealthy ones if the Dudd Government really wants to add some more taxes.