Archive for March 30th, 2015
Of shit sandwiches, tax ‘reform’ and taxing the rich
Posted by John, March 30th, 2015 - under Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax cuts, Tax reform, Tax the rich.
Tags: Equality, Equity
Comments: 14
Given the widespread opposition to the 2014 Budget, the one percent have drawn an important lesson from that debacle – consult with the intended victims before launching attacks on poor people and workers. That is what the tax discussion paper is about. This Damascene conversion to talking to people begs the question – is a tax shit sandwich no longer a shit sandwich if it has consultation sprinkles on top? To ask the question is to answer it. The solution to the tax and budgetary dilemmas seems pretty clear. Tax the rich.
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Should mass civil disobedience be the next step for the refugee movement?
Posted by John, March 30th, 2015 - under Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Civil disobedience
Comments: 2
My own view is that for the refugee movement in Australia to defend asylum seekers and to defeat the rotten, cruel, inhuman and rights abusing policies of both the Liberals and Labor we need to begin to have a discussion about civil disobedience as the next step in our campaign to free the refugees from Australia’s concentration camps here and offshore and from the hellholes in Indonesia and Malaysia.