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The resource industry is of course a special case...that's why they already pay royalties...huge royalties, which of course the previous government was all too happy to collect.
My understanding is that RSPT at least partially replaces royalties...but there is so much noise on this subject coming from the mining sector it's almost impossible to have a reasonable debate.
The mining sector of course says if it wasn't for us Australia would've fallen victim to the GFC...but I read somewhere that if resource sector job losses had been replicated throught the economy we would've had 19% unemployment!
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Not strictly true. Once, when I told him his opinions were wrong and used Australian Bureau of Statistics figures to prove it and he told me I could "shove those figures up my f#$kin @r5e"
....then Iamthecreaturefromuranus said I was one of the top blokes on this site.
....then Iamthecreaturefromuranus said I was one of the top blokes on this site.
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so. can we say that some people like oz and some dont then
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I post once a week, if that, these days. But if the stuff I said in this thread is considered bad form then this site really has plummeted into a morass of tedium.
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why don't you try debating it on here?
'forced income equalization will stunt growth'
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perhaps controlling growth = facilitating the growth of some, at the expense of others....
'forced income equalization will stunt growth'
- if 'stunting growth' is a bad thing, then why do we seek to control growth through monetary policy?
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perhaps controlling growth = facilitating the growth of some, at the expense of others....
You obviously have a socialist, left-wing viewpoint on this topic and I have a capitalist, right-wing viewpoint. There's no point as I am never going to agree with the RSPT in it's current form.
Let's agree to disagree.
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Nope, sorry - cos some of us like bits - and dont like other bits. I live here, I accept that, same as I eventualy would accept wherever I happened to be iving. Doesn't mean I really like it or dislike it - its just there. Same mucky brown stuff, just a different bucket.
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
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Nope, sorry - cos some of us like bits - and dont like other bits. I live here, I accept that, same as I eventualy would accept wherever I happened to be iving. Doesn't mean I really like it or dislike it - its just there. Same mucky brown stuff, just a different bucket.
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........![Confused](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif)
I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
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Nope, sorry - cos some of us like bits - and dont like other bits. I live here, I accept that, same as I eventualy would accept wherever I happened to be iving. Doesn't mean I really like it or dislike it - its just there. Same mucky brown stuff, just a different bucket.
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I wonder if anyone actually likes 100% of where they live........
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