Re: State Rail - No, State Joke. [NSW]

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

"Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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| "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
| > "Karina Vor-daniken" <vorgestern@hotmail.com> wrote in message

| > | Why does not the State Government add a 0.25% tax increment upon all
| > | Sydney Metropolitan residents,
| >
| > Impossible to implement.
| >
| >
| The French have a system called 'versement' or something like that.  It is
a
| charge on employers like a payroll tax, IIRC up to 2.5% in Paris and the
| regions can set their own rate up to 1.5%.

Very different (and better) than a state government trying to do the
impossible and tax Sydney Metrop residents.


| All the funds so collected are spent on public transport.  An employer can
| opt-out by buying their employees' transit tickets.  Hence the French are
| not short of a franc for the new additions to Paris Metro and the new LRT
| (tram, trolley bus and guided rubber tyred tram thingies) systems being
| introduced in both Paris and the regional cities.
|
| Here we have GST thrust on the workers while the payroll tax system is
being
| dismantled!

Dismantled? Hardly. Reduced from 6.2% to 6% with no indexation of the
threshold in 6 years.