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23 June 2000 |
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Letters to the EditorTax Farce
Dear Sir, The ridiculous threat by the CPSU to disrupt the implementation of the G.S.T., is another example of incompetents in the Union Movement making a complete bollocks of people representation. Is it any wonder that Union membership is shrinking and Union Leaders are now jumping ship onto the lifeboats called Parliaments , State , Federal and Local? Like sheep to slaughter, these Union members are being encouraged to create a diversion for the Howard government. If this industrial action goes ahead as this insidious tax is being implemented, all of its initialteething problems will be attributed to an ill-timed and ill-conceived ,industrial action by this obviously naive union, the CPSU. This is a tactic ,as old as Methuselah , when a problem is foreseen, create a diversion and ascertain the blame elsewhere. What better diversion than a belligerent, incompetent and fearful but willing Union leadership! Is it possible that the Liberal Party controls this Union? The G.S.T., if left to its own devices will completely and utterly destroy this coalition government. One only has to compare the circumstances in Canada, where only 2 out of 153 members of the Coalition Parliament were returned to Parliament after the introduction of their variation of the G.S.T. The conservatives in Canada , are now a non-entity , and of course the Socialists , in spite of their promises , did not repeal this tax. Canada is now one of the highest taxed countries in the Industrial World. Is it not a sign of madness - to continue to do the same things, and expect a different result? . Tom Collins Ps. How does one go about getting a Labor Council Computer and tuition on how use it to become an activist?
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