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I received this as an email today. Its an interesting look from a Boss' point of view.
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Very good read
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Great and a lot of truth in it
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spot on
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I would say youre boss has just realised, that after all that sacrifice and work over the years is going to come to nothing, because of the economic slow down
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i hope he sent it to the government too
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Couldn't agree more! God help us (the pollies clearly wont) when we really start to see the effects of this over the next 5 years.
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great read
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How true that is......
Good read. |
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Great post - I've sent it to my boss
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Great read, thanks for posting
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A Subaru? Bourgeois scum! How very opulent.
Edit: But without taxes, where would else could he parade his golden chariot in clear sight of the drooling plebs? |
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Agree but when people stop spending . Everyone suffers..
It takes all sorts to make the word go around.. If everyone was a tightass ?? There would be little money made.. BTW to a point I'm one of them !! According to my family .. Lol..
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I don't agree.
If the business can't make a profit after ALL expenses (inc tax and wages) then there's no point to the business. The story is very emotional and not very factual. This is why 99% of people are employees, they're not mad enough to think being an employer is a good thing. I don't see that tax on businesses has changed very significantly at all over the past 5, 10 or even 20 years. If your business can only survive the good times and not the bad, then it's not a viable business and the govt should not be blamed.
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The point was that it may all seem like a glamorous life being the boss but more often than not there is a lot of sacrifice behind the scenes and the employees seem to think that the boss can pluck money off a magical money tree.
It's coming from the point of view that bosses don't do anything and have it easy which is completely untrue, again more often than not. People very rarely fall into high paying jobs and at the end of the day the responsibility falls on them. |
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"Very emotional" My oath, running a business certainly IS emotional! "Not very factual"... How the hell would YOU KNOW? There's more to owning & operating a business then just bloody profits! There's a tiny little thing called "RESPONSIBILITY".. Responsibility to your employees that they have a stable, sustainable paying position. These employees, who ARE your bread & butter, also have commitments such as mortgages, school fees, rates, utility bills, car running costs, etc, etc. You have NO IDEA how tough it can be ensuring this continuity and stability is to keep merrily rolling along! (ESPECIALLY nowadays) And I certainly DO believe the Government needs to take some blame here! They've completely turned their back on the manufacturing industry in Australia, along with decades and decades of skills. These will be lost forever. As will industry as we know it! Australia... "The world's biggest warehouse"!!
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You don't see how tax and conditions have changed in the past 5, 10 or 20 years while you were at school? So you don't remember what it was like when there was not tax on labour way back in 1999 or Sales tax was paid ONCE not GST everytime a transaction happens (which is why your second hand car is 10% dearer than it should be. Or when superannuation was covered by the pension and did not cost the employer 9% extra). Or when a good employee could be given a nice work car to drive as a reward and not cost a fortune in fringe benefit tax. Of course not, you were at school, living off your parents and being provided with education paid for by employers' tax. I dare you to PM me (or post it on here) your employer's name and phone number so I can show him what an intelligent, aware, caring employee you are...... |
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GST, introduced on 1 July 1999 (or was it 2000 ??)brought with it major compliance and accounting issues for businesses ....For some all it meant was registering for GST, applying for an ABN and chaging invoice fromatting, while for others it meant all of the above plus an overhaul of their accounting systems and training staff so that they can show the ATO they are complying. I can't complain though as all this keeps me in a job. The point of the article was to highlight that, in the writers opinion, the stimulus package would have been better spent encouraging small business to invest rather than hand it over to welfare beneficiaries if heading off unemployment was the governments primary objective. I don't think its purpose was to complain about the high administration costs of running a business, however those don't help... In any event it is fictitous - I've had 3 copies sent to my email this morning, so it's just another one of those "Joke" type emails doing the rounds...Don't knock yourself out over it !
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The point of the article was to highlight that, in the writers opinion, the stimulus package would have been better spent encouraging small business to invest rather than hand it over to welfare beneficiaries if heading off unemployment was the governments primary objective.
But it did, investment allowance, small business (under $2m turnover) purchase assets over $1,000 and get an additional 30% deduction, plus the depreciation on that asset, big business (over $2m turnover) assets costing more than $10,000 get additional 30% deduction, but i agree they should be building more infrastructure, then giving money to people to waste, as it all ends up in China anyway ![]()
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Couldnt have said it better myself.
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The boss that wrote that letter sounds like my father. Always on the go, always thinking about whats next, always tied to his business. Though things have always been like this for small businesses, I don't see why they have to make it harder than it already is?
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Its a very carefully designed emotional piece to get a specific response.
It also uses extreme and very specific examples. Think Kerry Packer was eating baked beans and driving a rusty toyota corolla when he started out? Think the guy earning 50K and doing 38 hours a week was living it up big time when he was doing uni or his apprenticeship? I dont think so. Im sorry, but i just dont see that Buisnesses need tax cuts. Mind you I also disagee with the government giving money away to the general populus which will probably just blow it on useless consumer crap. If the government really wanted to stimulate the economy they would pour the money into infastructure and capital projects. Its a tried and proven method. |
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I disagree , I am in business and agree whole heartidly are you in business ? "but i just dont see that Buisnesses need tax cuts" ah so you are not in business , perhaps you might politics as the myopothy already effects you I must say although specifically tuned to illicite a given response the "letter" is a gem and truthful in the extreme. |
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It's all about working from & with solid foundations & structures.
Be truthful in what you are doing to your self & others. Don't be fooled or lead astray by schmucks ? You have to have time for your family or the whole exercise is in vain. A 8 HR day is fine, but there should be extra dollars in it for overtime. Don't sink so low as to being a jewbag. If some one is incompetent a thief, dishonest, corrupt, they have to get the sack. About 10 years ago i did not really comprehend how deep "the us vs them" problem really was. The liberal party gave life! to the labour party. and the labor party have been ![]() ![]() All to the detriment of Australia. The building industry in QLD is a absolute disgrace. building companies and so called builders these days! have destroyed the industry. we now have incompetent halfwit fools every were. and they will not listen. because they are on a mission to them self. |
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