We’ll lose with Labor
WE NEED to make a careful, well-thought choice when we vote in the federal election.
Labor’s policies are not anywhere good enough for continued stability and economic strength in a competitive international market.
Where their policies fail can be sorted into two sections of taxation claims and border protection.
When Labor lost in 2013 there was at some point over 10,000 people in detention centres all over the country.
There were more than 2000 children in that melting pot and to the world’s shame and ours 1200 died at sea while at the hands of people smugglers by way of 800 boats, most of them about as seaworthy as a brick in open seas.
Despite the horrors of the trip, people smugglers made a fortune with very few brought to justice for the loss of life.
Those who paid the outrageous amounts charged either sold everything they could or were country shoppers.
You can all thank the Rudd, Gillard, Rudd fiasco for all of that expense, misery and woeful handling of the issue.
While the LNP has been hitting the news with “Prime Minister assassinations” and the sour grape bleatings of one of Point Piper’s most bitter residents, don’t think for one minute Labor is any different.
If Bill Shorten loses the “un losable’’ election see how long it is before he gets a knife between the shoulder blades.
The second weakness is economic credentials.
We are talking about a political party that wants to abolish franking credits (dividend imputations) and scrap or reduce negative gearing or capital gains deductions.
These have all been legal deductions for as long as I can remember (and I’m 70).
Such a party either does not understand or care about repercussions for retirees on their superannuation income.
Indeed, it impacts working Australians as this will make superannuation funds alter investment strategies, and re- duce the income of those who rely on receiving these dividends either from their shares invested or their investment properties.
We have to ask Labor who are they trying to appease by changing these deductions.
Isn’t it up to the ATO to rein in and prosecute anyone rorting the system as it stands?
If Labor is trying to protect or increase its cash flow at the expense of Australians then they do not deserve to be in Parliament.
Bob Hawke said that Bill Shorten would never set the world on fire in a recent TV interview. Maybe not but him and his mob will certainly have a red hot go at burning a hole in the contents of the Treasury.
If we in the North either vote Labor federally or re-elect State Labor then we are brain dead.
It’s a great shame that commonsense isn’t common any more. Despite all the problems of the LNP I believe the economic outcome for Australia will remain growing by staying with the LNP but never under Labor.
As I have stated before, I am not and never have been a member of the LNP. I am just a simple Australian who is intensely proud of my amazing country but disgusted at what politics has done to it.