Paver by paver Evil Anna lays her highway to Hell:
“South Australia needs jobs to grow its economy, not new taxes that will undermine this objective,” ABA Chief Executive Anna Bligh said.
“Over the past 10 years, full time jobs in South Australia grew by an average of 0.2 per cent per year, compared with 0.9 per cent across Australia.”
A new statewide Galaxy poll (Galaxy surveyed 801 people in South Australia between 8 – 12 September 2017 via telephone and online)conducted this month shows that 52 per cent of South Australians oppose the tax compared with only 38 per cent who support it. Half of people surveyed believe the tax would negatively impact on jobs in the state.
The website also features new television ads with members of the South Australian community urging the Government to dump the tax and focus on jobs and growth.
“In 2016, the five banks impacted by the proposed tax paid around $1.5 billion in dividends to shareholders in South Australia and lent $10 billion to South Australians to buy their own home,” Ms Bligh said.
“This is a tax on all South Australians and will impact shareholders, customers and bank employees,” she said.
What drivel. It is a more than fair fee for the public support that the banks receive for free from taxpayers. The RBA calculates such at 16bps of liabilities. The Feds only collect 6bps. SA is collecting its share of the rest. The banks can’t apply discriminatory pricing to SA so the entire campaign is bull.
Evil Anna may be rolling in her silver pieces today, drawing both her public pension and fat banking stipend together, but she’s going the Hell soon enough.
