and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
The man in charge of the body that oversees hunting in NSW national parks has been charged with illegal hunting and trespassing.
Game Council NSW acting chief Greg McFarland and another man were charged after police investigated claims two men trespassed onto a property near Mount Hope in western NSW and hunted illegally in December last year.
The NSW government are looking for a new looney to take over the asylum.
Uh, mine?
Pretty good really, busy at work, no major hassles, rehearsals went well, charity gig at the Eye and Ear hospital this coming Sunday, did some recording on Garageband, bird banding Saturday morning with some good friends, caught a Pink Robin, first one for our study. Exciting. The dog’s on a diet so it really, really loves me. Oh and some arsehole declared nuclear war … how was yours?
Let’s eat the rich …
Well let’s at least get seriously jealous and really hurt them …
After all it’s good that we let them employ people, pay lots of tax and spend money, we let them off having to live on the age pension, we don’t make them live on New Start. Cool.
Let’s raid their super … big problem, one thing that the hysterical class warriors, from Rob Oakeshott to Wayne Swan via Fairfax’s Peter Martin, seem not to realise is that for people with squillions super offers a chance to reduce tax by a paltry amount. Here’s Peter Martin …
THINK about an executive on $1 million a year. Not quite one of Joel Fitzgibbon’s “battlers”, but someone several rungs above. His or her company pays a legislated $90,000 a year into a super fund of their choice, the payment is taxed at just 15 per cent. So instead of paying $41,850 in tax, the executive pays just $13,500. The gift from the tax system is $28,350.
What a terribly wicked rich person, well no what a complete load of bollocks, once the numbers are corrected it reads …
… a legislated maximum of $17,190 per year into a super fund of his or her choice; … The gift from the tax system is $5415.
The fact is payments into super are capped therefore the capacity to lower tax is also capped at a fairly low figure. The way to raise money from super is to forget the very rich, just hit all those who’ve been diligent in saving for their retirement. Those who gambled away their income have made their contribution.
But, notice too, the reference to a gift. I have worked hard, I have provided employment to others, we have paid our taxes and contributed to our retirement funds.
SOMEONE on $300k pays about $113k a year income (little or no govt benefits) tax yet someone on $50k a year pays about $7700 income tax (plus govt benefits). The person on $300k pays 14 times more tax for six times the wage than the person on $50k. (Terry … )
If you are going to call that amount of your earnings that the taxman allows you to keep a gift the Cyprus solution starts to look reasonable.
Professor Bunyip is back, perhaps he finally made bail …
I just went to make my lunch. Have you ever noticed that as your bread gets older it sometimes turns green …
The carbon tax, that Julia and Wayne promised we would not have, is designed to increase the cost of energy.
I played the Inverloch jazz festival again this year, in the past it has had problems with flood, this year it happened to coincide with a heatwave. One of the venues is a council hall. To avoid the carbon tax the council would not turn on the air conditioning. The result was that the audience fled to the one hall that they could sit in without melting whilst some great musicians played to an almost empty house.
The availability of affordable energy is almost the measure of a civilisation. In hot places like Australia or in cold places like the UK people on low incomes are being forced to make a choice between keeping their houses at a comfortable temperature and putting food on their tables.
But the most ridiculous side effect of this ridiculous tax, ridiculous because it will have no impact on the world’s climate, is the burden placed on hospitals.
VICTORIA’S cash-strapped hospitals have been hit with an extra $6.7 million in energy costs due to the carbon tax in just six months, new data reveals. State government analysis of hospital bills shows carbon charges made up on average 15 per cent of hospital energy bills. Herald Sun.
For far too long public debate in Australia has failed to nourish or inspire us…. The end result of this political cycle is a weary people who no longer believe what politicians say and who think the politicians saying it do not even believe it themselves.
In fact, Julia Gillard, maiden speech …
This is Horus getting his Easter Eggs …
Since he is a sacred baboon you have to wonder if he might have been an altar boy.
That egg was from Tim to Francis, there‘s got to be one for Mal somewhere. One for Gayle, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. Better make that one easy. JM .. The Suet pudding. Julia. Given my advancing years I could probably even hide one for myself.
And today is about the rolling away of a rock.
And for all of you, everywhere. Be safe, come back alive. And pray …
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