Unrealized capital gains taxes are coming to 🇦🇺 Australia.
However, politicians and their staff, judges, and police are exempt.
https://video.nostr.build/c866c62f76edb0983763b25986c7c5ba57e941b030f25ebe7d26596fbd4738f0.mp4
This is absolutely bonkers to me. Either this is a lie/misconstruction or Australians are rioting in the streets and burning down the homes of politicians, judges and police and it's not being reported.
If I am wrong, please introduce me to a pretty Australian girl (and there are lots of them). I promise to treat them better than that and I'll still get everything I ever dreamed of. :)
It is real. The catch is that it only impacts those with a balance of over $3M AUD so most people cheer it on to tax the rich. They have no concept of inflation and that sooner or later it will impact everyone.
🙄 crazy. Humans' inability to think in the abstract (i.e. "it's not affecting me at the moment, so I don't care) is truly saddening. It's the principle, not the act. As the poem goes, "first they came for the trade unionists, but I was not a member, so I didn't care"..:(
Don't underestimate the Statist tendencies of a former penal colony.
😥 Indeed. The greatest irony of all. I remember reading that the queen would routinely be pranked by schoolchildren when she made her rare visits to Australia - they once set a water fountain on her, and once the schoolkids all "mooned" her motorcade, but I guess that was many decades ago. Whither the Australians' rebel spirit?
Yeah Aussies used to have guns too IIRC.
