Submitted 2 days ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to australianpolitics@aussie.zone
I own my house outright. I own a vacant block of land outright. Soon there will be a house on that block of land, which I am on track to own outright within five years.
I support housing reforms and don’t think they should grandfather anything in.
I know what it’s like to be incredibly poor and the class mobility that let me go from growing up in poverty to relative wealth no longer exists. It needs to be fixed.
And the other side of politics is having a field day, as if they have never broken a promise.
Anyone remember a statement that No government I lead will ever introduce a GST?
Not saying that this makes it ok, just pointing out the general hypocrisy
GST
And this is a regressive tax. Fuck GST. Would much rather have had very slightly higher income taxes…
The “problem” are already having a hissy fit and pretending they work hard, and they’re going to ramp up rent bigly.
That’s how you know it’s a good reform… when they’re panicking
Excellent. Reforms are badly needed!
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Good. Govt should break stupid promises. Housing is insane and the “well, let’s just keep propping it up” approach has not helped one bit.
I’m sure they will be grandfathering-in any boomers though, wouldn’t want to actually anger the largest voting base or their 4 houses. We’ll see I guess…
Would love to see foreign ownership canned for both businesses and individuals (need citizenship to buy house and land). There so much that can be done to ease the housing crisis, and so far we’vr tried very little.
vividspecter@aussie.zone 2 days ago
It’s the same reason I didn’t give a fuck about the Stage 3 tax changes. The original version was obviously benefiting only the wealthy, so it’s hard to care if they lied when the modified version was obviously more equitable.
prex@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I was going to say that.
Good policy is more important than the 24 hour media cycle.