Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 9136521)

The same as the rest of your tax. Most payroll depts charge you tax as if you are earning the same amount all year. If you don't earn that amount every month then you can claim back the extra tax money paid at the end of the year. Some payroll depts will let you reduce the amount of tax withheld to the correct amount of your annual salary if you ask.

Originally Posted by Vegemite Kids (Post 9134741)

But thats just naive to think that. They're Govt. ie by definition they dont use money as wisely as they could/should. Its got nothing to do with them being socialists.

Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 9134760)

Shame most independent respected economists disagree with you. ;) The handling of the GFC was touted as excellent and the suggestion was we would have lost far more money had we lost confidence and gone into recession.

Originally Posted by Deancm_MKII (Post 9136539)

You mean the economists that are in the pockets of the US Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs?

Originally Posted by Expat Kiwi (Post 9134783)

not only is Australia losing tax revenue

Originally Posted by freebo (Post 9136517)

I'm talking from some experience here, I worked on the NpfIT (or unfit as we called it), the huge white elephant of computerising the NHS, for about 3 weeks until I quit in disgust. I was on a decently paid contract but moved on because the suppliers management attitude was "do things as slowly as possible, we're on the clock", many years later its something like £10 Billion over budget and still delivered very little of use, this was obvious very early on.

Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 9136543)

Yes Dean, of course I did ;) please send link to conspiracy website so I can read for myself as I can't pickup fox news here ;):p

Originally Posted by Deancm_MKII (Post 9136562)

The NHS Trust Payroll project was a complete disaster that wasted billions!

Originally Posted by freebo (Post 9136584)

Err, yeah, thats kind of the point I was making...

I'm talking about the National programme for IT (NpfIT), also known as Connecting for Health one of the largest IT projects ever and a huge failure. I was ironically suggesting that the NBN is likely to enjoy similar success :p

Originally Posted by Deancm_MKII (Post 9136593)

I placed people on the NHS Trust Payroll project and yeah, the NBN will also be a complete disaster.

Originally Posted by spalen (Post 9134858)

Not many mate, because they were exempt from that little 'gift horse' due to its means testing.

Originally Posted by Deancm_MKII (Post 9136537)

This levy is pure socialism. Do you know what socialism is?

Originally Posted by IvanM (Post 9136705)

Was Howard's gun buy back levy socialism?

Originally Posted by Deancm_MKII (Post 9136537)

This levy is pure socialism. Do you know what socialism is?

Originally Posted by Deancm_MKII (Post 9136789)

How was the levy structured?