Taxed almost to breaking point? Do you know what percentage of your tax goes to jobseeker payments (just jobseeker, not pension and disability payments), or are you just regurgitating hyperbolic and overly emotive propaganda?
How many unemployed people do you know? I can guarantee a fair few of them want to work. You obviously have no idea how hard it is for people who are middle aged or older to find work and how hard it is to get on disability.
You could do with a dose of empathy, lafam.
Put floaties on before you jump in the deep end mate ..
Australian’s are taxed on average at 33% a 3rd of everything they earn …
But like you, most don’t consider excise tax where they’re paying taxes on money that’s already been taxed, land taxes, stamp duties, luxury tax, capital gains taxes, I don’t have all night to go into all the other taxes that you haven’t considered.
Everyone knows there are legitimate people looking for work, they’re also very aware there are a big percentage that have no intentions of ever getting a job and are proud to admit it, people who are very capable of working, some even come out and admit they haven’t worked for over 5 years and have said they know how to cheat the system and they’re proud to do it, I had an office over the top of a Centrelink office, the amount of young men and women riding disability scooters into the Centrelink building who you’d later see come out, zoom across the road, get of the scooter and walk into the bottlo, or 7/11 was alarming ..
And yes I personally know of people who haven’t worked for 20 years and never intend to and I’ve seen that carry through to the next generation.
Have you ever owned a business and gone to your accountant and ran through the amounts of your profits that go to the tax man ever quarter …
To the ones you mention that are legitimately looking for work I say step it up, businesses all over Australia are crying out for good staff !
For those that legitimately can’t work, I’m sorry for the thousands of rotten apples that paint you in a bad light !