ABCDiamond

200ml is $13.99 here. Definitely better than the $18 for 100ml the other poster mentioned.

Deancm_MKII

Why would I google it when I am not really bothered? You brought it up so I wanted to know if you knew. Obviously you don't.

For the record, I don't give two shits about Abbott or Gillard or left or right wing of politics. Abbott's just a lesser evil of the two.

ABCDiamond

It is actually at least $73,550, before adding on the benefits, tax deductions etc etc

ABCDiamond

If they have charged a premium to cover flood, then I doubt anyone would argue that, but if they haven't ??

eg: My premium is $1,000, without flood cover, but $1,500 with flood cover.
If I choose to pay only the $1,000, should I still be covered ?

There are a number of problem ones though, where the cover is confusing, and THAT needs to be sorted out before it happens again.

IvanM

Will you take the dual income challenge?

swans

WOmderful how people refuse to think.

Collecting the money not a problem.Say you earn $60K,then you'll pay 0.5% on 10K,which is $50,as the lady said,less than $1 per week.

If you earn $100k then you will pay 0.5% on 50k which is $250,or as the lady said ,slightly under $5 per week..

Now if you earn $110K you will pay $250 plus 1% of 10k,can you work that uout all by youself,easy isn't it.

Gillard probably can work out the maths,it would seem you cannot.

Now to collect it,when you get your tax rebate could they possibly deduct $50 from that rebate and call it flood levy.Or if you owe tax could they possibly add $50 to your bill under the line called flood levy.Or would something so simple be far too complicated for the majority of people to see.Baffles me why the human race has great difficulty in seeing the bleedin' obvious

Could Henry Ford be right ' the hardest work a person can engage in is thinking,very few people will engage in that work'.

Geordie downunder

spalen

who gives a poo. It was 14 years ago

we're talking about raising tax for 1 year as a 'special event' to pay for capital infrastructure that will last for 50yrs . In an economy where they have not proven they need to do it.

How could they possibly have done a full assesment of finding 5b$ in the coffers and decided that a levy was the 'best' route to do it from all the other options , in the time they had between the floods - and the levy being announced - ie 10 days.

what a crock. They making a 5b$ decision in 10 days - please dont tell me they have done a full and thorough analysis and this is the BEST option.

IvanM

The point is that it is a bit rich to shout reds under the bed and for Abbott to be contrarian when his own party has a history of multiple levys. This is as socialist as the coalition.

Your point on the rushed nature is valid.

HelenTD

I checked the price with the nearest chemist. They also mentioned a generic Nurofen 200ml for $17.95, 55c less than the 100 ml Nurofen. It seemed a bargain, until I asked the mg/ml amount and the generic one was half the mg/ml than the Nurofen, so you would have had to use twice the amount . Another example of how expensive WA is.

HelenTD

$100,000 has been classified as a high salary for a long time. However, with inflation and cost of living changes, $100,000 is not worth as much as it used to be. Unfortunately, the govt still views it as high - the reality in WA is this is not a high salary.

Also, if you are an employee with nothing to claim as work expenses, then you get no tax rebate. If you put some numbers into a calculator such as
http://www.moneydetective.com.au/cal...tax-calculator and split $100,000 across both partners working, you see how single income families are penalised. Also, you can put in substantially lower overall salary to receive around $73,000 after tax. There are substantial Centrelink payments available that boost family income significantly.

There are huge tax rebates and Centrelink payments available for some wealthy people, ie if they are self-employed. It's the regular, 8-5 employee, single income earner who gets penalised most.

Rich is not $100,000 - and it's nowhere near wealthy.

moneypenny20

It may not be but I wish we earned somewhere close to it.

HelenTD

I'd much rather my OH was self-employed and that I had a part-time job.

No taxation system is perfect, but it is ridiculous when you are actually better off on a lower salary. How about this: a self-employed professional, wife doesn't work (unless he claims her as "office manager"), 4 kids, large house in very expensive suburb, gets extensions done to the house which he claims as work expenses (new home office, etc), boat, 2 cars, overseas and interstate holidays each year. They got all those $900 payments, x 4 as they have 4 kids, get a large amount each fortnight as Family Tax Benefit A, which means they also get Education Tax Rebate and probably other things we can only dream about. I do get a tad annoyed at what the system allows some people, but not the families financing it.

kevin747

I still care what happens because I have friends there.I was not hugely succesful,just successful and I only earn three times the national wage here.
Enjoy the levy.

ABCDiamond

The flood levy doesn't, so nor will I

Deancm_MKII

But the coalition are not the ones in power or pulling the strings. Labor are.