Humourless Liberals and Property Owners squeal

I make plenty on the stock market as well, I cant see your point. Yes Ted made a joke, but another very stupid one. Sure there is unnecessary hoo-ha but for God’s sake, can we get through 1 week in the ACT without one of these amateurs doing something stupid?

I am at a bit of a loss how investing in local property does nothing for the local economy. I mean it is all those local builders and suppliers that get paid isnt it? Last I looked we weren;t flying them in from a 3rd world backwater. What better way of investing locally directly than by buying a local house

fantastic return on investment for you does not mean the money is doing for the national economy what it could be doing in a local stock exchange (if there were any decent investments to be had there, see earlier comments on government policies).

Similarly it’s a crying shame if real estates and off-shore investments are the only options.

that’s real failure of policy.

yes, i could invest my money off-shore, which has no benefit whatsoever to the local building industry or the people that support it.

its a fantastic use of capital, when used intelligently, as in the long term it ALWAYS goes up. I bought a place for $104K in 1997 and sold it last year for $280K. i hardly call that a ‘poor use’ of capital. essentially house wise I am now set for the rest of my life because of the use of equity.

the government also encourages forms of investment in full or partly franked dividends. everyone can get into that.

too many people too lazy to get off their collective arses and make something of their lives are supported by the people who have. call me a blatant capitalist, but when you and yours work hard for their money, then why not maximise its value

Dude it’s not about “Rodney Rich Pigs”

It’s about someone has to pay, I’ve asked you to suggest more worthy areas of revenue raising.

There’s also the issue that poor government policy (at local, state, and federal levels) has made real-estate the best investment possible in this country. which is a problem because it’s not a terribly good use of capital when you look at the bigger picture.

There are many other places and things you could be investing in, and if government policy encourages people to do it elsewhere (and in the process makes it easier for other people to get into the amrket to buy their OWN home, rather than rent from you and all the others like you) then I think that’s a good thing.

but the basic point is this; ted quinlan made a joke. Raising this whoo-haa around it distracts attention from more serious issues.

not all property speculators are the rodney rich pigs you so despise. some do it for reasons like planning for their retirement so as they are sulf-funded and not a burden on the welfare system.

i have worked damn hard to earn my money, if i wish to speculate the fruit of those toils. then again if we follow the standards proposed by the Stanhope junta mediocrity is encouraged and the lefty ways of quinlan et al will become policy

in preference to targeting people investing in busineses? or targeting people who don’t have any money?

Seems sensible to me.

I don’t think property owners should be shouldering all the burden, but there’s a reason they’ve traditonally been asked to bear the lions share of local government funding.

plus it’s a rare sector of the economy where a collapse in investment has upsides (cheaper houses for people who don’t already have one).

so target a group just because they’ve had the temerity to save or manage themselves well financially?

ABC Online have more on this with Ted Quinlan (can you feel the tired exasperation in his voice even in this medium?) explaining the concept of humour to the baying plutocrats.