If you want to tax capital gains over $3 million then do it, but taxing unrealised capital gains is taxing on gains that haven't materialised, hence they are "unrealised" and I think that's stupid, whether it be for $10 or $10 million

that's quality

He said that with capitalism we'd become overwhelmed with choice and freedom and food and entertainment to the point where we'd be incapable of making a decision for ourselves?

That's what he said really?

Pretty much, same question can be answered with 'how can anyone trust the search results that come up on google?' the answer is you can't, which is why AI shows you the sources it got the info from and you can decide for yourself

This place sounds like old people, did you know wikipedia can be edited by anyone? 😱

It's like a mobile game!

Yes

I'm a bit iffy on this, all this proclaiming the liberal party is dead after 1 admittedly bad result

I feel like a similar article about low membership of Labor could have been written about after 2013:

The Labor Party recorded its lowest two-party preferred vote since 1996 and lowest primary vote since 1931

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Australian_federal_election#Result_commentary

Maybe because I'm old and the liberals have been in power 2/3rds of my life that I just refuse to believe if they put someone who isn't a complete muffin in charge they won't claw back a large amount of seats

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