Thread: tax cuts- what will you spend yours on?

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Tombie, in my 40 years in the workforce as employee and self-employed I never came across a private sector business that employed one more person than the bare minimum to do the job mostly a few heads short and everyone had to bust their rings to keep up. Any lovely cheap or free government money went to dividends to owners and shareholders and executive bonuses.

I feel for you then mate.

When I had my business we hired two additional staff when the government of the day made it more viable.

Then I managed to have a bit of time off as well


I know here (corporate) that we’ve just taken on a heap of apprenticeships and other positions driven by benefits to the business from a Tax perspective.

The big companies I worked for also just gobbled up tax cuts as profits and dividends, while continuing to slash staff to the bare minimum and replace people with machines.

If we're wondering how the economy is going, because of confusing statements by political parties, this story has lots of interesting graphs. He's also gone to the trouble of separating Victoria, which is a disaster because of the pandemic, so we can see how the other states are really doing.

Australia's post-Covid jobs snapback is all about part-time work | Greg Jericho | Business | The Guardian