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Look at how many people are into crypto. A libertarian wet dream that will destroy the governments ability to govern if it ever truly takes off.

Yes but that never happens

What crazy world are we in where the right wingers are rejecting religious discrimination bills and the left wingers are supporting them. This is completely bonkers. Lefties are supposed to be against them. Freedom to ignore and even mock religion is what lefties are supposed to stand for.

As an athiest im horrified they are trying to impose religious discrimination bills. Why are people supporting this?

So the libs are doing the opposite of what trump and majorie green want? Why do you have a problem with this?

Gees media need to properly follow up with questions. Dutton says it doesnt include the cost of transmission so not comparing apples with apples. Problem is, it does include the cost of transmission. Dutton has either just lied or guessed cos he never read the report. Why are our journalists...

I do not care how cheap nuclear power is. Its a risk to civilisation. I do not want it built no matter how cheap it is. Thus its not just about economics. To say it is only economics is a very libertarian view to take. Nuclear power requires strong regulation, no wars (if a missile hits a...

Thats a very conservative view to take

I think this report overestimates the costs of firmed renewables to play it safe. Its much likely to be noticably lower.

Coal is irrelevant. Gas is only for firming now. You need to compare nuclear with the cost of firmed renewables. And a proper ratio of firming which is quite small.

You cant talk about nuclear and just focus om economics. You have to also discus the risks. Now the probability of those risks may be extremely small but the impacts are so mind boggling devastating that they must be properly considered. Even if nuclear is cheaper (and my modelling suggest it...

To create a society of equal oportunity. Its a core requirement of capitalism.

It means using batteries or hydro when the sun aint shining at night. Which is still cheaper then nuclear.

Assets and cash that you own. We already have wealth measures. The pension test is based on a wealth measure.

I dont think thats true. It would net out to being the same. But in your case you also have higher house prices making it harder for others.

But its not self funded if you need to give them tax incentives or subsidies.

I dont think he was accusing victoria of being progressive. My worry is victoria is becoming regressive.

If you have wealth it already is by not taxing that wealth and forcing workers without any wealth to pay high income taxes to compensate for not taxing your wealth.

Why is it politically too late to do death taxes? Its more vital now then its even been. Although wealth taxes do also tax inheritance. So you can bypass the political debate around death tax by going straight to wealth taxes which are the same thing.

Good to know that when i run for office i have Chiefs vote. I will ban private schools and dramatically ramp up funding for public schooling.

Neoliberal policy??? The neoliberals want to get rid of super. Labor want to keep and increase super because it provides savings and wealth to low income earners who often wouldnt save themselves. If it wasnt for super only the wealthy would earn equity income further creating a gap between rich...

You pay taxes on it going out?

Not sure what your point is. If we had wealth taxes all along instead of income taxes you would of paid much lower taxes when you were younger and had lots of expenses and paid higher taxes now if you had lots of wealth. over your life you would of paid less tax overall under a wealth tax...

You cant claim high income earners are savers (as many do) and dont spend whilst also claiming they spend too much and add to inflation. It can only be one or the other. the best thing to stop inflation is to get more people working. income taxes disincentivise that. Wealth taxes much less so.

Because inheritance is determined by who your parents and grand parents are. That is purely luck. No one chooses who their parents/grand parents are.

How Does it do that compared to income tax? I would say income tax more defeats the purpose of making money than wealth tax. The reason is that the only difference between income tax and wealth tax is people who get lucky with winning money. Which is different to making money.

Halving emissions is completely inadequate. To stop temps rising emissions need to get to zero. Even if world emissions fall substanially temperatures keep rising. Its only at zero emissions do they stop. if we build new gas plants now then those plants are still running and producing emissions...

Terrible idea. Not needed.

Solar panels arent toxic. They are mostly made of sand.

But why do you have to? Back in the day a decent sized property could be earnt off 1 income working 40 hours a week. And now a much smaller property takes 2 incomes and a total of 100-120 of work for week? by what reason does that seem justified? the problem we have is there are lots of people...