#409 “my understanding is that the site is responsible, not the blogger”.

Actually, if something is genuinely defamatory, anyone could go for a row – the blogger, the moderator, the editor, the publisher…

But one needs to keep in mind international law. There is a lot you can do when you start farming out the server (or parts of the server logic) into different legal domains.

Actually wrong, I have posted over 30 post in the last 4 weeks

“During the Howard years, income tax rates were reduced for high income earners. At the same time the income tax threshold hasn’t increased. Inflation over the last 11 years has resulted in low income earners having a larger proportion of their income taxable and hence paying more income tax. (If this doesn’t make sense, please study the difference between Average Tax Rate and Marginal Tax Rate).
In addition to this, a 10% GST was introduced. The GST applies to most items including all essential services such as water and electricity, and thus is payable by everyone.”

It is completely wrong, the Threshold had increase, 0 rate has increase from 5k to 6k, 20% rate had decreased to 17% and kick in from 22k as opposed to 15k.

low income earner have more rebates than ever before, please know what you are talking about before posting garbage

Barry says “The end result is those on multi-million dollar per annum incomes pay less tax, while the vast major of people pay much more tax. ”

Again completely incorrect, the likes of Kerry Packer and Murdock already choosed to be US resident (where marginal tax rate is much lower) or they have vehicles to reduce tax. The high marginal tax rate have caused the high skilled and inventors to move overseas, leading to the “Brain drain” and Australian working in Singapore, HK, UK or USA. This can only be solve by making our tax rate more efficient

GST have been found to be the most efficient tax by the World bank, it has not caused any hardship.

Earlier this year, you claimed that you were too young to recall how bad the Sydney Public Transport system was under the Fahey Government. Unless you were part of some family trust (or other tax dodge) when Hawke (please note the correct spelling) was PM, you would not have been paying any tax at that time.

Wrong again, I never said that, did you here about Staterail this morning? I did not notice how bad state public transport of under Fahey, because it was not bad. Complain to state rail had increase 500% from 1990 to today, Sydney population has nota

Nice to see you’ve kept your sense of humour about you. I admire that in a person, and so do most Australians. If the LNP is ever re-elected, it will be due to the efforts of people like you making LNP politicians realise that they are human like the rest of us. Keep it up.

MelbCity (or your sockpuppet du jour):

We all get the point – the Greens are evil, the Greens are nasty, the Greens don’t deserve to win anything etc., etc., etc.

Unless you actually have something to contribute, do us all a favour and shut up.

William Bowe:

Being as neither MelbCity nor any of his sockpuppets have done anything except bag the Greens incessantly, could you please ban his latest sockpuppet? Eventually, even he should get the point.

This is bad news for the farmers. They may lose their drought assistance. No wonder they don’t vote Labor.