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Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Monday, October 30, 2006

it's better to vote for the conservatives

because they get money to run government things from their friends in big business. The only way Labor can get money is to put taxes on everyone.
You're joking right?
What do you mean?
Well where do you think Conservatives get money for public service and hospitals and schools and the defence forces?
I thought Woolies and Packer and BHP and the banks gave it to them as long as they kept inflation down and interest rates low.
OK, well I'll stay with you for the moment. So where does Labor get its money from?
Well I assumed it got it from Unions and by putting taxes on the ordinary individual instead of big business.
So are you paying taxes now?
Yair. Keating left this huge defecit and Costello has to keep the taxes on to pay back Keating's debts. Thats why I wouldn't vote Labor again.
So when Costello has paid back all of Keatings debts that means we won't be paying taxes right?
Well don't take my word for it. You sound sceptical but that's the way it was explained to me.
So as soon as Keating's debt is paid, who will pay for the hospitals and schools and army and public service?
Well like I said, Packer and BHP and the banks and mines and all the big people. That's why we are Howard's battlers. He looks after us little people by making the big people pay taxes. Labor and Beazeley are going to tax us little blokes.
You're not joking are you? That is how you understand the tax and the political system.

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