Re: Freight Australia not happy

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Tell" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| Are you saying that you were better off under the hidden taxes of the
ALP.?

He said he was considerably better off under Howard's GST.


|  Never mind the quarterly automatically indexed grog, smokes and petrol
tax
| laughingly called "excise" introduced by Hawke/Keating
| .......remember them.?

And the secret increases in Wholesale Sales Tax after each election.


|
|
|
| >"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
|
| > It's dependent upon circumstances.  With a $400/fortnight mortgage that
does
| > not attract GST (fees are negligible) I'm considerably better off than I
was
| > before 1/7/00 courtesy of the tax cuts, removal of wholesale sales tax
and the
| > introduction of the GST.
| >
| > If that $400 was spent on goods and/or services instead of a mortgage
I'd be
| > worse off.  Of course if I could invest it I'd be better off again.
| >
| > Still won't win Honest John this vote.
| >
| > Chris
|