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

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

"Bradley Torr" <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
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| Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in article
|
| > Very different (and better) than a state government trying to do the
| > impossible and tax Sydney Metrop residents.
|
| Why not? If the Federal Government can have a system of rebates for
| personal taxpayers depending on which part of the country them live in
| (remote areas), then why can't the State Government add, say, a Public
| Transport Tax to residents within the 40-odd Metropolitan Sydney boroughs?

And collect it how?

|
| > Dismantled? Hardly. Reduced from 6.2% to 6% with no indexation of the
| > threshold in 6 years.
|
| At least it's not company tax - from 49% to 30% in a little over a decade!

And still the bastards sponge off the workers. Payroll tax is about the only
way they get *any* tax out of most companies.