They need the money. .to hand to their mates.

11 Responses to They need the money. .to hand to their mates.

1. Katie says:

   January 27, 2012 at 11:35

   People who pay tradesmen in cash (or checks) are taxpayers trying to maintain a budget.
   • KG says:

     January 27, 2012 at 11:47

     My argument has always been that it stops the bastard government double-dipping. Taxing the income then taxing the income paid to the tradesman.
     The whole thing is a nonsense anyway–the buyer of the service has already paid tax on the money he uses to pay for the job and the tradesman promptly spends that money on other goods and services which are taxed in any case.
     What this is all about is government greed and the arrogant assumption that they’re entitled to a cut of people’s lives in order to be able to pay their crony friends exorbitant salaries and bonuses, and bribe their welfare constituents.
     Screw ’em.
     If the tax system worked the way they’d like it to, all free enterprise would grind to a halt.
     • Darin says:

       January 27, 2012 at 12:04

       The only fair tax is a sales tax,tax the money when it’s spent,not when it’s earned or invested.

       As for paying cash to Tradesmen,most Tradesmen I know need the cash under the table to survive since they get hammered for 16% of their gross earnings to fund all the socialists wet dream programs.
       • KG says:

         January 27, 2012 at 12:41

         Tax on gross earnings is around 30% here, Darin.
         • Darin says:

           January 27, 2012 at 12:47

           how can anyone survive in that? Imagine if you could sock that 30% away out of reach of greedy politicians and lawyers?

           So when I see jobs in Oz advertised as $90,000A then roughly $27,000 is going POOF!?
           • KG says:

             January 27, 2012 at 13:47

             Yep.
           • The Gantt Guy says:

             January 27, 2012 at 14:33

             That’s why the avoidance industry is so huge, Darin. The tax code is insanely complicated, with levies for this (e.g. A ‘one-off’ levy for last year’s Queensland floods) and deductions for that. A surcharge if you don’t take out private medical insurance, and deductions for taking out Income Protection Insurance. The top rate is $0.47′ which kicks in at $180,000. And that’s why so many high earners avoid becoming salaried employees, but choose instead to corporatise so they can split the tax burden with their wife.
         • steve Magendans says:

           January 27, 2012 at 17:45

           plus ACC plus Grab snatch & Take . FUCK’N THIEVES !
2. KG says:

   January 27, 2012 at 12:23

   I just love the “diverting money from hospitals and schools” bullshit.
   If they’re diverting money, it’s from fat-cat friends of the government, slimeball politicians and effing Somalis and Pakistanis being given million-dollar houses and thousands a month of taxpayer’s money.
3. kowtow says:

   January 27, 2012 at 12:48

   They just don’t get it and perhaps never will.What is needed is a drop in standards of living guaranteed to the useless by government on the back of the working tax payer.

   Less,not more government is the answer. People might then not resent all the taxes and bullshit they have to put up with. The non cuts at the MoD are probably a good example.
4. steve Magendans says:

   January 27, 2012 at 17:46

   new arseholes for all of them , OK ?