Your blog reminds me of the time I watched an OLD version of the movie Sabrina and compared it to the Harrison Ford version. It was mostly a scene by scene, word for word remake with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions leapt off the screen and stuck with me for the past 15 or 20 years.
In the older version someone challenges the rich guy “Why do you want to build more, make more?”
He replies “I’m building schools, hospitals; my employees’ kids have shoes…” not a literal quote but you get the idea. The rich guy was paying taxes and contributing to society and was a philanthropist, a GENUINE one.
That exchange was omitted from the Harrison Ford version. Instead he was all about wealth and winning.
It was tragic to see how far society and people fell between the …I think it was Carey Grant and Humphrey Bogart version and the Harrison Ford version. Tragic.
Those were the days when the average CEO made a mere seven times his (always his) workers' salaries, not the seventy or seven hundred times more common today. Today's muckety-mucks don't think about the employees' kids shoes because that whole stratum is beneath their notice. A rounding error in their tax minimization scheme, as I'm sure JB would point out, if he deigned.
How can we help, JB? Should we double the level of our Patreon support? Triple? I don't want you to ever even have to consider firing the little man who manages your weekend whisky dispensing. Or the person who rotates the tires on your fleet of European supercars by a quarter turn every second day. How can we help???
It is enough that you and your kind do not foment violent revolution against me and mine. But by all means, certainly, give me whatever remains of your money.
No! That's what the gold-plated robots are for. And that's all JB uses his gold-plated robots for. They don't polish anything else. Those other rumours are without foundation.
It's impossible for me, a humble Western Sydney battler, to comprehend the sort of financial acumen that someone like you must have taken on between rugby tours, food fights and mutual masturbation sessions at the Kings School. I defer to your superior knowledge of the arcane laws and instruments of the superannuation system.
Naturally I will still vote Liberal in the hope that my descendants are able to accumulate the sort of nest egg that would make this new legislation of any concern to me at all. My only fear is that before that blessed day society will collapse entirely and we will be forced by circumstances to put you and all those like you against the nearest sturdy wall for some rapid social re-education.
Unless Labor pulls their socks up in terms of communication this will end up like the negative tax for franking credits thing: Murdoch’s flying monkeys will convince people who are entirely unaffected by this that the gubmint is after their dollarydoos as well.
Of course, not effecting many people is not actually an argument for the policy. But constantly repeating “dignified retirement” is not going to sell the policy either.
I think we should tax the poor harder to make up any shortfall wealthy superannuants ( is that a word?) nevermind, rich bastards should not pay more, I with the alien on this one, if I had any super I wouldn’t want socialists hands in my pocket..
There is enough money in the world for humans to house, feed, educate and provide health care to every child in the world. Surely the surest route to future peace.? Humans choose not to do it. Humans choose to proliferate expensive weaponry. I wonder if there might be something genetic, evolutionary and necessary in our behaviour, something fundamentally wrong with us as a species or both ?
And not once did you mention class envy or the word greed. Please let a little trickle down to me and others like me! I'll check with my kinsman on Grand Cayman who may be able to engineer that trickle out of your account into one which I could set up there to expedite that trickle/flow. No middle men - except aforesaid kinsman. Is it true that a number of former LNP ministers have accounts in George Town on Grand Cayman - apart from Malcolm T, that is?
Exactly. You and your kind are the True creatives! Wealth and richness creatives, from the sweat of your hard work and from your daring risk taking. Glued to that mobile all the time, not fun. And also...you lit the way for Aspirationals and everyone knows Australia rides on the Aspirational's back.
Your private wealth truly makes us a TRUE Commonwealth. You've strengthened democracy because you dared to dream... of more bucks than you could poke a stick at. That is the true Dreaming of our nation. You have extended the frontiers of the fungible. Fungibility, young and warm and wild and free. Everyone's a winner! Except for the whingers. Back off Albo, you and your mates.
THIS! I’ve tweeted this to Albo & Chalmers, urging them to go further. Voters want public housing, public schools, public health. These people are shameless greedy selfish pigs.
Your blog reminds me of the time I watched an OLD version of the movie Sabrina and compared it to the Harrison Ford version. It was mostly a scene by scene, word for word remake with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions leapt off the screen and stuck with me for the past 15 or 20 years.
In the older version someone challenges the rich guy “Why do you want to build more, make more?”
He replies “I’m building schools, hospitals; my employees’ kids have shoes…” not a literal quote but you get the idea. The rich guy was paying taxes and contributing to society and was a philanthropist, a GENUINE one.
That exchange was omitted from the Harrison Ford version. Instead he was all about wealth and winning.
It was tragic to see how far society and people fell between the …I think it was Carey Grant and Humphrey Bogart version and the Harrison Ford version. Tragic.
Those were the days when the average CEO made a mere seven times his (always his) workers' salaries, not the seventy or seven hundred times more common today. Today's muckety-mucks don't think about the employees' kids shoes because that whole stratum is beneath their notice. A rounding error in their tax minimization scheme, as I'm sure JB would point out, if he deigned.
How can we help, JB? Should we double the level of our Patreon support? Triple? I don't want you to ever even have to consider firing the little man who manages your weekend whisky dispensing. Or the person who rotates the tires on your fleet of European supercars by a quarter turn every second day. How can we help???
It is enough that you and your kind do not foment violent revolution against me and mine. But by all means, certainly, give me whatever remains of your money.
I mean the gold plated hovercraft is not going to polish itself FFS 🤷♀️
No! That's what the gold-plated robots are for. And that's all JB uses his gold-plated robots for. They don't polish anything else. Those other rumours are without foundation.
See this is why JB has half a billion dollars in super and us plebs have $100k. This kind of entrepreneurial thinking is beyond us
I do wish you would stop writing Sky News After Dark's scripts for them
Dear Lord Birmingham,
It's impossible for me, a humble Western Sydney battler, to comprehend the sort of financial acumen that someone like you must have taken on between rugby tours, food fights and mutual masturbation sessions at the Kings School. I defer to your superior knowledge of the arcane laws and instruments of the superannuation system.
Naturally I will still vote Liberal in the hope that my descendants are able to accumulate the sort of nest egg that would make this new legislation of any concern to me at all. My only fear is that before that blessed day society will collapse entirely and we will be forced by circumstances to put you and all those like you against the nearest sturdy wall for some rapid social re-education.
All the best guvna, I dips me lid.
When it's time for the poor to eat the rich, I don't want my share riddled with lead. Must be a better social re-education system somewhere...
Rik below has identified it! Vive la révolution!
My favourite joke:
I'd explain trickle down economics, but 97% of you just wouldn't get it.
(sorry for double dipping)
Unless Labor pulls their socks up in terms of communication this will end up like the negative tax for franking credits thing: Murdoch’s flying monkeys will convince people who are entirely unaffected by this that the gubmint is after their dollarydoos as well.
Of course, not effecting many people is not actually an argument for the policy. But constantly repeating “dignified retirement” is not going to sell the policy either.
Heh! "...artisanal tax minimisation advice..." Gold JB! Simply Gold! :-D
Is that you Judith Sloan? Ease the grip on those pearls baby!
I think we should tax the poor harder to make up any shortfall wealthy superannuants ( is that a word?) nevermind, rich bastards should not pay more, I with the alien on this one, if I had any super I wouldn’t want socialists hands in my pocket..
There is enough money in the world for humans to house, feed, educate and provide health care to every child in the world. Surely the surest route to future peace.? Humans choose not to do it. Humans choose to proliferate expensive weaponry. I wonder if there might be something genetic, evolutionary and necessary in our behaviour, something fundamentally wrong with us as a species or both ?
I have no time for comments, still sharpening that guillotine.
And not once did you mention class envy or the word greed. Please let a little trickle down to me and others like me! I'll check with my kinsman on Grand Cayman who may be able to engineer that trickle out of your account into one which I could set up there to expedite that trickle/flow. No middle men - except aforesaid kinsman. Is it true that a number of former LNP ministers have accounts in George Town on Grand Cayman - apart from Malcolm T, that is?
Exactly. You and your kind are the True creatives! Wealth and richness creatives, from the sweat of your hard work and from your daring risk taking. Glued to that mobile all the time, not fun. And also...you lit the way for Aspirationals and everyone knows Australia rides on the Aspirational's back.
Your private wealth truly makes us a TRUE Commonwealth. You've strengthened democracy because you dared to dream... of more bucks than you could poke a stick at. That is the true Dreaming of our nation. You have extended the frontiers of the fungible. Fungibility, young and warm and wild and free. Everyone's a winner! Except for the whingers. Back off Albo, you and your mates.
THIS! I’ve tweeted this to Albo & Chalmers, urging them to go further. Voters want public housing, public schools, public health. These people are shameless greedy selfish pigs.