It is a melancholy object that according to the most recent public access data, 73 per cent of the monetary benefit of capital gains tax discounts and negative gearing goes to the top ten per cent of wealthy Australians.
Certain groups such as Cormack Foundation and Advance have made political donations upward of $40 million to lobby to preserve economic policy relating to housing.
Ten per cent of the top earners makes up roughly one million and a half Australians that disproportionately benefit from a system designed to concentrate wealth in the hands of the wealthy. This is a system that rewards having enough money to begin with to hoard an asset that most places in the world consider a basic human right.
A modest proposal could be that the bottom 30 per cent can offer up their children for consumption to hungry landlords, as a means of covering the ever-increasing costs of rent.
Unrelatedly and completely rhetorically, the rough cost to build a functioning guillotine is approximately $2,000. According to records from the French Revolution a guillotine can service roughly 20-30 people before requiring sharpening. Theoretically, 139 guillotines could efficiently service 1.5 million people in one month, costing significantly less than the lobbying cost of $40 million to influence politicians.
As noted, this is unrelated and rhetorical, however, I feel it should be public access information for dragons to consider as they amass their pile of gold to sit upon.
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