Chemical Ali
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This is a thread for making fun of both major parties' campaigns from now til the election.
Let's start with the obvious:
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Ok first it's called the "Fairness for Families Act", which makes it sound like they got some kind of focus group to choose a name that would appeal to bogans. Laws should not be named like supermarket promotions, it's just wrong.
Secondly, does the name imply that it's unfair for singles, couples without children and the elderly? Probably, but those groups never existed at election time anyway, lol
To the substance of it:
(1) Ban rises above inflation.
Can they even do this? Like can they interfere with what the banks do to this extent? Anyway obviously this is meant to make it easier to pay off your mortgage. Or easier to get a mortgage. Coz, you know, making it easier to get mortgages didn't just cause a global financial crisis or anything like that, right?
(2) Cap public transport fares
Pretty apathetic about this, except to say that if PT runs at an even bigger loss than it already does, where is the money going to be stripped from to keep it going? Probably health and education, lol. Or maybe they could have a levy.
(3) Stop the sale of sydney water
This is a typical labor smear campaign to imply the evil liberals are going to sell off all the state's assets. Even though they already said they won't.
(4) Annual power rebate for households under $150k
This one makes me rage the hardest. You don't have to be a free market advocate to see why this is incredibly retarded. In fact not only is it economically stupid it manages to be anti-environment all at once by encouraging people to consume more power.
Discuss.
Let's start with the obvious:
[youtube]q-UyZ3vVJKg[/youtube]
Ok first it's called the "Fairness for Families Act", which makes it sound like they got some kind of focus group to choose a name that would appeal to bogans. Laws should not be named like supermarket promotions, it's just wrong.
Secondly, does the name imply that it's unfair for singles, couples without children and the elderly? Probably, but those groups never existed at election time anyway, lol
To the substance of it:
(1) Ban rises above inflation.
Can they even do this? Like can they interfere with what the banks do to this extent? Anyway obviously this is meant to make it easier to pay off your mortgage. Or easier to get a mortgage. Coz, you know, making it easier to get mortgages didn't just cause a global financial crisis or anything like that, right?
(2) Cap public transport fares
Pretty apathetic about this, except to say that if PT runs at an even bigger loss than it already does, where is the money going to be stripped from to keep it going? Probably health and education, lol. Or maybe they could have a levy.
(3) Stop the sale of sydney water
This is a typical labor smear campaign to imply the evil liberals are going to sell off all the state's assets. Even though they already said they won't.
(4) Annual power rebate for households under $150k
This one makes me rage the hardest. You don't have to be a free market advocate to see why this is incredibly retarded. In fact not only is it economically stupid it manages to be anti-environment all at once by encouraging people to consume more power.
Discuss.
