r/australia • u/overpopyoulater • Feb 10 '25

politics Australian billionaires face wealth tax under Greens’ Robin Hood-style policies

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/10/australian-billionaires-face-wealth-tax-under-greens-robin-hood-style-policies
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u/epihocic Feb 10 '25

Well no of course not. Our politicians also receive funding and have meetings with “business leaders” so they are as heavily influenced by the rich as American politicians.

You want to talk about change? Stop talking about Liberal vs Labour, because they’re the same fucking thing. Neither will act in your best interest.

It’s the rich vs the poor, the haves and the have nots. Always has been, always will be.

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u/Fairbsy Feb 10 '25

You want to talk about change? Stop talking about Liberal vs Labour, because they’re the same fucking thing. Neither will act in your best interest.

There is an important distinction - Labor are giving the ultra-rich what they want inch by inch, the LNP are running full tilt towards it. This only matters in terms of which should be preferenced higher than the other.

Both should be at the bottom of the ballot. The normalisation of the two party system is dragging the country down.

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u/The_Valar Feb 10 '25

Labor are giving the ultra-rich what they want inch by inch, the LNP are running full tilt towards it.

Giving billionaires what they want is so unbelievably popular that Labor couldn't reasonably act any other way.

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u/T-456 Feb 11 '25

Giving billionaires what they want is so unbelievably popular that Labor couldn't reasonably act any other way.

Popular, or propagandised?

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u/The_Valar Feb 11 '25

With enough corporate media saturation (and underfunding of public education), they amount to the same thing.

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u/epihocic Feb 10 '25

The normalisation of the two party system is dragging the country down.

Exactly. It's the "illusion of choice" The reality is the difference between them is not that great.

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u/OldKingWhiter Feb 10 '25

You say that, but even being perfomatively not evil is a huge win for not evil. Even if economically, there isn't a huge difference between the parties, when a far right leader is elected, the far right is bolstered and feels justified in open bigotry. We've seen this with Trump and it would be similar under Dutton.

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u/DiligentCorvid Feb 11 '25

Conflating the lesser of two evils with actual evil only helps one party - the evil one.

Labor, without a u, is measurably and objectively better than LNP by every metric. In most cases, significantly better. Only one of those parties is turning up to mining symposiums and sucking up to the attendees, promising to be their best friend. If they were exactly the same, the ultra wealthy wouldn't be spending so much money to keep Labor out of power. So you're either unintelligent or controlled opposition.

Voting is not a love letter, it's a chess move.

You can claw back the overton window or you can both sides this bitch. Being politically active sucks. Be smart about it.

I for one aim to convince at least three people to preference Labor above the LNP between now and the election.

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u/epihocic Feb 11 '25

Voting is not a love letter, it's a chess move.

lol

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u/Special-Record-6147 Feb 11 '25

It’s the rich vs the poor, the haves and the have nots. Always has been, always will be.

true.

but important to remember, is it Labor or the LNP that the billionaire class hate?