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Old 15th May 2005, 11:26
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Kaptin M
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Time out guys!
You are both in agreement (I think), but too intent on winning individually (and as a result ripping into each other) to see that there is probably more COMMON ground than different.

I believe you BOTH agree that Australia's taxation system is too overly complex.
The best and fairest system would be to tax EVERYONE equally - regardless of income - but that EVERYONE who individually benefits MUST pay his share.
And that when a tax break occurs, it happens across the board -EQUALLY for EVERYONE.

What p!55e5 a lot of us off is NOT the fact that some people are making LOTS of $$$'s, but the fact that not only are they avoiding/evading tax, but they are rubbing the noses of the less fortunates - who ARE playing by the rules, and paying their share of the tax - by openly flaunting their ill gotten gains by way of ostentatious property purchases.
"Millionaires' Row" - now more correctly Billionaires' Row - on Hedges Avenue, Mermaid Beach (Gold Coast), is a prime example.
The modus operandi there, is for several houses valued at a couple of million dollars EACH to be bought by one purchaser, all then totally demolished, and a single, private residence constructed on the previous multiple sites.
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