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Also interesting that Australia's population is now 28 Million. Which is a lot, but still doesn't put us in the top-50 nations by population.

After a threshold. You don't want to tax some poor pensioner who has lived in the same 2-bedroom cottage in Carlton for 60 years, simply because that location is now worth $2Million.

And now it's complicated. How do you find that threshold?
If it's per-person, you'll find rich people divvying up their portfolios to family members to distribute this tax benefit.
If you grandfather it in so it only affects future property purchases, you disincentivise retirees from downsizing to a smaller place, freeing up some 4-bedroom house.

Taxation policies are hard.

Sorry Willie, you can't upload a video to YouTube and then say it was a private setting.

I doubt you'd get away with calling the lecture private even if it weren't broadcast.

The problem is I love all three publications and would struggle to choose one name.

/c/NotBetootaShovelChaser ?

Remember that whole thing 15-20 years ago about "Occupy" and taxing the 1% etc?

This whole thing affects the top 0.3% of the population. 99.7% of us won't be affected by it. There should be very wide popular support for this.

Hell, I wish I were affected by this policy. This is an awesome problem to have!

It will be interesting to see how popular this line is. It has to mainly be for people along the line to connect to the city lines, right?

Unless you are a teenager, you'll be retiring far sooner than 50 years. Less than 20, for me (hopefully).

Every Saturday is much the same: Hockey, Shopping, Extra thing.

The kid lost hockey to the team on top of the ladder, but still scored a goal. Shopping was mostly a success, I need to go back for more stuff soon.

Not sure what Extra thing will be at this stage, but it's my wife's birthday soon, might take the kids shopping for that.

I hate getting up early for parkrun. But I've never regretted doing it.

Emergency Cheese has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I have emergency cheese in the fridge, I find I suddenly have an emergency that requires cheese.

My wife has been fascinated by this case and listens to the daily podcast about it. She's gone from "oh she definitely did it" to "maybe she's innocent, I can't be say beyond reasonable doubt" after this week's testimony. So Erin is clearly doing some good for her case on the stand.

I haven't been following the case closely, but I listened to one recap podcast a week ago where they describe the multiple phones, the missing phone seen on camera that wasn't provided, with the one provided to police being factory reset first, and taking her dehydrator on CCTV to the tip after telling police she didn't have one - it was all pretty damning.

Three million?! Who the hell has that much?

At that point, 5% interest will give you an annual salary of $150k. You can comfortably live off that and never touch the Three Million!