Aussies earning $50000 - 100000 a year hit with flood tax

Yeah so no one now will donate a cent to any future disasters n Auz

They did it to themselves.

They built illegal dams to catch all the water so they could sell it to the other states.

The Wivenhoe dam stopped the vast majority of water from making it a bigger disaster. One dollar a week isn't going to break the bank, neither will five dollars a week. If you can't afford the flood levy then you have bigger problems.

I dont think this is such a bad idea, however I can see that it has great potential to be mismanaged.

We are always faced with natural disasters here and some kind of back up is a good idea.
Insurance companies are notoriously sly when it comes to pay outs and there are situations that companies wont allow insurance for flooding...ie if you live by the sea.

I also dont think it should be just for floods either, I think it should be for all natural disasters. Fire and earthquakes are just as destructive.

If all taxpayer paid a small amount each week, not just the wage bracket that they are suggesting, but all tax payers, I am sure we would be able to look after ourselves in times of strife.

I earn well below the 40 k mark and am willing to pay

how much do we hand out every year in the name of foreign aid? 30-60million. I can see a new tax for world development coming soon, there is no end to this kind of mentality.

Hand over your money like you were bred to do... don't worry if the commonwealth takes 1/2 of it and doesn't use it on flood rebuilding, just hand it over..

Aussies, you'd better buck this right now while the air is ripe with upheaval. I know coming from someone in this country that sounds a bit hypocritical, but for the love of all things right don't stand around and take the butt fucking like we have.

i dont have to pay it, coz im flooded with being poor.

Aussies past time is a government butt fucking.. they love it.

rather should have said

Aussies past time is a butt fucking FROM their government.. they love it!

fuck the levy

so we can waste 8 billioon on school halls we can afford to rebuild queensland without the bloody levy

If we can waste 2.5 billion on pink bats

we can rebuild queensland without the levy

If we can spend 45 mill on an aboriginal housing estate and not a single house has been buil;t we can rebuild queensland without a levy

If the government can waste 1 billion on constancy's in a year we can rebuild queensland without a levy

If we can spend 43 billion rolling out a better optical high speed national broadband we can rebuild queensland without a levy

Frankly if they cant find 5 or 6 billion out of the 350+ billion taken then do what any government normally does borrow make some cuts to other programs and repay later.

Where do you think they got the money for those things?

Hmmm

The drought cost aussies ten thousand million dollars in monetary terms alone. The pain and suffering is beyond calculation.

How much was the Levy for the drought?

On the subject of tax

The sin taxes are going up under the automatic indexation system introduced almost 30 years ago by Bob Hawke - and kept by John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard - to try to stop cigarette and beer tax rises overshadowing the federal Budget. The excise is linked to inflation and changed on February 1 and August 1 every year

THE Gillard Government will impose another slug on the hip pocket next week with cigarette, beer and spirit taxes all going up.

It will be more pain on top of the proposed flood levy and rising electricity and food prices.

The increase for so-called "sin taxes" will add 19c to a pack of 50 cigarettes, 14c to a pack of 40s and 11c to a pack of 30s.

The tax will hit smokers and drinkers from Tuesday and collect millions of dollars for the Budget, but it has not yet been announced by any government minister.

A smoker who buys a pack of 30 cigarettes a day will pay $70.63 a week in tax.

It is the third tax rise for smokers in the past 12 months, including a 25 per cent rise last April to pay for the hospital reform plan.

Beer drinkers face a 16c tax rise on a full-strength slab of 24 cans - taking the total excise on the carton to $14.44. A slab of light beer will increase by 5c.


Spirit drinkers will suffer the biggest tax hit, with the Government adding 21c to the price of a 700ml bottle, taking its share on every bottle sold to $19.02.

There will be a 36c leap in the tax collected for 24 cans of pre-mixed spirits, giving the tax man $32.61 a slab.

A six-pack of pre-mixed spirits rises by 9c.

Retailers must collect the extra tax but other factors, such as competition and business costs, could mean prices paid by consumers will differ from the tax increase and vary between brands.


Dont forget all thats double dipped with a 10% gst on top

Yeah lets bring in another fucking tax

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What about Paul Keating?

Selfish retard and illiterate moron !

The Jewish owned federal reserve bank prints money which costs nothing. They loan it to the auusie government at interest, and the slaves, i mean taxpayers, pay it to the government so that the government can pay back the money plus interest to the beast, i mean federal reserve bank.

Where do you think they got the money for those things?

doesn't matter if funded by our current taxes or borrowed and repaid by future taxes

Still OUR taxes paying for it still a waste of money and frankly wouldnt rebuilding stimulate things more than pink bats in fucking houses that killed and burnt down houses due to a badly implemented program

Johnny was able to pull a 5 to 10 billion surplus think it was 9 out of 10 years.

This is selfish because ???

Im not saying dont help dipshit im saying it can be payed for out of money already given.

go back to your corner ya grammer/spelling nazi

Johnny was able to pull a 5 to 10 billion surplus think it was 9 out of 10 years. johnny did this by selling off Australias assets. The Australian Gold reserves come to mind. Retard boy sold off the aussie Gold reserves at 340 an ounce. He could have sold the Gold reserves today, paid for the queensland floods and still had change to buy a leader who was not a traitor for Israel.

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Quit your bitching it's a small price to pay, consider it your hands on helping hand for a mate and STFU.

So what's the difference? If the government spends it, then it was money that was taxed from the people.

You say John Howard taxed people 10 billion dollars more than he spent. That sounds like a BAD thing. Why should people pay an extra $10 billion in tax, so that the government can put it in the bank and say what a huge pile of money they've got? How does that benefit the country?

Wouldn't it be better if the government taxed people approximately the same amount as they intended to spend, rather than taxing an extra $10 billion off people and bragging about it?

No insurance?

The government had insurance, it is called taxpayers.

Many of the sheep were not insured for flood damage.