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Old 23rd Mar 2012, 23:39
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Ushuaia
 
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What us Albo banging on about? I'd have to research this better, to see the complete context, and really have no interest in doing so on Saturday morning. But is he talking about a benefit, a tax offset, to the EMPLOYER or the EMPLOYEE? He makes reference to both parties. I am reading this as a proposed benefit to the EMPLOYER, to make it more attractive to hire more expensive Australians. Now that doesn't necessarily translate as the employee paying less tax!

These politicians make an art of sounding good for political purposes but when you study what they are really saying and meaning....
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