"Green Lantern" <green@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Sir John Howard" <sirjhoward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse!
>>
>> http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23373433-31037,00.html
>>
>> ALMOST one in two Australians would prefer planned tax cuts to be
>> divided between cash and their retirement funds, a new union poll has
>> found.
>> The poll indicates 47 per cent of Australians would prefer the $31
>> billion in cuts to be halved between cash and superannuation, while 36
>> per cent sup****ted full tax cuts, with 17 per cent undecided.
>>
>> Taken by Roy Morgan Research for the Australian Workers Union, the
>> telephone poll found that 51 per cent of working Australians sup****ted
>> the split, compared to 33 per cent.
>>
>> Of the unemployed people surveyed, 41 per cent wanted the full tax
>> cuts while 39 per cent wanted a combination.
>>
>> Australian Workers Union national secretary Paul Howes said the
>> findings showed the community was prepared to allow the Federal
>> Government to switch its policy from tax cuts to a combination of cash
>> and super.
>>
>> The union had first raised the idea earlier this year, he said.
>>
>> "The poll shows voters are economically literate and politically
>> sophisticated enough to understand that in the fight against inflation
>> and rising interest rates the option of increased superannuation
>> rather than tax dollars in the pocket is smart stuff," he said.
>>
>> "Our poll also reveals that Labor sup****ters and union members are
>> particularly enthusiastic about this idea."
>
> That's because the Lefties are too dumb to realise they can make
voluntary
> contributions to Super themselves. Noone's stopping them. Instead they
> prefer to back an unmanageable, feel good, Kumbayah, socialist agenda
and
> not only to back it, but to force their misguided ideas onto everyone
else
> who has a brain.
Oh yes of course it's a bad idea... because the Coalition didn't say it.
Isn't that how things work down there at 7% Headquarters?
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