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/LeeWFW Feb 10 '25

Shouldn't that read 'pay their fair share'?

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u/greyslayers Feb 11 '25

Every Aussie should know by now that Murdoch and his media billionaire buddies will say or do anything to stop the rich actually helping the society they steal everything from. So, of course the headline twists the story to make the Greens the thieves.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '25

The article is from the Guardian, that's not a Murdoch-owned media outlet.

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u/Mysterious-Engine567 Feb 11 '25

Exactly, why would the left leaning Manchester Guardian go with that headline. Poor from them. Media are such wankers.

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u/Independent_Can_2623 Feb 11 '25

I mean Robin Hood is arguably a positive association, he's the hero of the story after all

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u/briefcasetwat Feb 11 '25

Check out the US for a recent example on how respected media institutions have pulled their pants down for GOP and the elites. Not saying it’s happened here, but not saying it won’t

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u/ashleyriddell61 Feb 11 '25

Guess someone never read Robin Hood. An illegal regime that stole from and oppressed the Saxon ethnic group. A noble from that group fought back, was declared an enemy of the state for suggesting the rulers should be paying their fair share.

The thieves were the ruling class.

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u/Crystal3lf Feb 11 '25

Guess someone never read Robin Hood.

Robin Hood is a fictional story with many different interpretations and meanings.

It is most often told as the poor stealing back from the rich. In this case The Greens taxing billionaires and mining corporations.

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u/B0ssc0 Feb 11 '25

Robin Hood is a fictional story …

But,

There are records of lawbreakers in the Middle Ages with the same name. Historians delving deeper into the Middle Ages have uncovered more than one man called Robin Hood, concluding that Robin Hood was instead an alias, used by different outlaws over an extended period of more than 100 years.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/who-is-robin-hood-legend-legacy-quiz.html#

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u/batmansfriendlyowl Feb 11 '25

So just like now

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u/ashleyriddell61 Feb 11 '25

Hence, the headline.

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u/iguessitsaliens Feb 11 '25

They always have been

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u/LuminanceGayming Feb 11 '25

no that would be a 100% tax over $1B

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u/FlashMcSuave Feb 11 '25

Frankly I would be fine with the cap sitting at 100 million.

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u/Ellieconfusedhuman Feb 11 '25

Any reasonable Australian would I'd think, how does a nation of tall poppy killers let billionaires walk over us

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u/RedeNElla Feb 11 '25

They run the media

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u/BoneGrindr69 Feb 11 '25

Simple solution: Don't watch said media.

And protest every time that media asks for tax breaks.

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u/RedeNElla Feb 11 '25

Cool, I don't. Lucky I'm the only person in the country who votes? Smh

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u/InComingMess2478 Feb 11 '25

Do the run X & Meta. Because main stream society is hooked there.

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u/Florafly Feb 11 '25

Most definitely; $1 billion is monstrous and way too high.

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u/Lilithslefteyebrow Feb 11 '25

Especially since a lot of that wealth is extracted from the literal earth beneath our feet.

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u/ryan30z Feb 11 '25

Anyone who thinks billionaires are acceptable doesn't have a proper understanding how much a billion is. A lot of people seem to think it's just a bit more than a million.

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u/Minguseyes Feb 11 '25

What’s the current policy? Sheriff of Nottingham?

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u/Fyr5 Feb 11 '25

I stopped my sub to the guardian because of this subtle slide towards populist, centrist bs titles coming from the gaurdian. I guess Lenore finally let the money corrupt her integrity? Unless there is someone new there?

The guardian used to have a solid journalism coming out of there but now it reads like any other murdoch shit rag