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| Paulie |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Ballistic
seriously, you kants have got issues |
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| Renegade |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
I think he meant its a privelege that Australia has got the system it does, cos it could be a whole lot ing worse. |
Of course it could be worse. Is that any reason not to try to make it better?
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Ballistic
Paul's right we do enjoy quite a high standard of living, and whilst some areas could be improved, like health, education its still better then alot of people have,. The easiest way to improve upon what we have now would be to raise taxes, but then you'd all complain about that too. |
The 2005 budget surplus was $8.9 billion. Funding on schools for this budget totalled $26 billion. We could increase funding on education by 10% and still end up with a very healthy surplus (remember, they were only anticipating a budget surplus of $6 billion initially - an extra $2.6 billion on education would still leave us with a bigger surplus than Costello had initially hoped for) without having to increase taxation or take money from other programs / portfolios. |
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| DJ_Ballistic |
| which no doubt takes out a small chunk of our 400 billion dollar defecit |
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| Renegade |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Ballistic
which no doubt takes out a small chunk of our 400 billion dollar defecit |
I think you're referring to Net Foreign Debt, of which I'm pretty sure the government is only responsible for a small fraction.
EDIT: 3.1% in fact. |
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