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In recent days you have probably had the same awful experience as me – harassed by Greens activists on our own streets here in Taree (you have my sympathies). Many people are telling me that they are being accosted by these loony lefties calling for a so-called “wealth tax”. I didn’t vote for them and neither did you, my dear reliable readers, so what right have they got to be telling us what to think, and handing out their grubby little pamphlets? Decent Aussies need to stand up and be counted. Australia should not have a wealth tax.
Let’s cut straight to the real truth. The issue is a small minority of bad apples who want a wealth tax. The Greens and the rest of the Wokerati, for example, are in favour of this tax, and they’re clearly not people we should be trusting! They’re always trying to exploit ordinary Australians’ concerns about the cost of living (food prices rising, housing shortages) by blaming all of life’s challenges on hard working members of society who have made a success of themselves, so
clearly they’re just doing this because they’re jealous of rich people. And they’ve always got secret agendas. Don’t be fooled by their lovey-dovey panda-hugging image, they’re really focussed not on being ‘green’, but on destroying our national pride, and bringing in new pointless red tape to ruin our lives. Another loud obnoxious voice calling for wealth taxes you may have heard of is self-made millionaire Gary Stevenson. Irresponsible “journalists” keep on platforming him despite his sordid background. He’s an ex-banker turned “inequality campaigner”. Should we really be listening to advice from one of the people who crashed the
economy? The main thing all these people calling for wealth tax have in common is that they cannot be trusted. Hypocrites or charlatans! Either way, those calling for a wealth tax areriddled with ill intentions toward decent people like you and me.
But you all know this already. Aussies are a smart bunch. We don’t need eggheads to tell us what’s what. A recent survey of 22,000 people found that Australians were much less in favour of raising taxes than other countries like the US or UK. And many of my celebrity friends have told me that these taxes are ridiculously unfair but none of them can come out and say anything for fear of being targeted. This clearly shows that most people are against a wealth tax. Why would the Greens and Albo want to go against the will of the people? Don’t they believe in democracy anymore?
What’s more, the country’s best economists at the Tax Foundation have pointed out that a
wealth tax just won’t work. Indeed, a wealth tax will make things worse because it will have high
administrative costs and it doesn’t actually raise that much money. Why? Well because the
wealthy will simply avoid paying it through inventive accounting and offshore tax havens. The
Tax Foundation points out that is why other countries are repealing wealth taxes because they
do not work. If other countries are getting rid of wealth taxes, why on Earth would we do something so stupid as to have one? Ultimately these kinds of taxes will probably cause a recession. You can see that wealth taxes clearly cause recessions in this graph about the UK below. Nothing else can explain the terrible things that have happened in that country. Therefore, a wealth tax is just so obviously a bad idea.
Another reason to reject the wealth tax is that although right now, these out of touch politicians might just be talking about taxing corporations and billionaires, if we let them get away with this then soon they’ll be introducing an inheritance tax, since The Greens and that Albo socialist mob are just itching to raise taxes on all of us. And we can’t let them introduce an inheritance tax, since inheritance taxes are clearly immoral. Why? It should be obvious that they’re immoral because, as the excellent Alexandra Mitchell of the Spectator has so eloquently put it, inheritance taxes are just a form of state sanctioned grave-robbing. And surely even the Greens wouldn’t suggest grave robbing is morally permissible! Or maybe they do! Next time you see one of those green shirted hippies bothering people in the streets with their grubby little pamphlets, go up to them and ask them, “How many graves do you want to dig up? Why do you want to rob hard-working, honest people?”
We cannot let a wealth tax destroy our great country. Make sure to email the local MP, Emma Goldman, and don’t let your voice by silenced by the ill-informed troublemakers pushing this unfair agenda! Let’s all work together to stop this nonsense.
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