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Perhaps it would be a lot easier to live as one pleases without having to pay the taxes required to subsidize $100/week and free health care for others. Perhap

Perhaps it would be a lot easier to live as one pleases without having to pay the taxes required to subsidize $100/week and free health care for others. Perhaps it would be easier to earn a decent return on investments if your government doesn't subsidize borrowing so much that you earn less than a dollar a year in interest on your bank deposits. Maybe Australia doesn't do that and its banks pay a decent interest rate as a result?

glibgil 11y ago
Think about the old people and the retardeds.
JustSomeNobody 11y ago
It's either subsidize $100/week and free health care or subsidize food stamps, emergency health care, etc... The whole point of a society is to NOT act as an individual.
- stretchwithme 11y ago
  Without individual action, a great many things would not exist. Some would say the point of having a society is to have rules that allow us to peacefully co-exist and trade with other. Its not to allow some to take advantage of others.
harryh 11y ago
Isn't is weird how some people in this thread say that the guy can only do it because of Australia's generous social programs. Meanwhile you think it would be easier if these didn't exist and taxes were lower. In reality I bet it's about as easy no matter what country you live in and what tax rates or social programs you have access to. Simply live a somewhat frugal life, save lots of money, and let the magic of compounding work over a decade or two. Rather than looking for excuses it's probably better to just get started.
- stretchwithme 11y ago
  I'm not searching for excuses. I'm a great saver and took several years off to work on apps and startups and a couple of book ideas. I'm very frugal. My last car lasted 15 years. Perhaps you'd be better off responding to what someone says instead of inventing imaginary motives.

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Perhaps it would be a lot easier to live as one pleases without having to pay the taxes required to subsidize $100/week and free health care for others. Perhap

by stretchwithme 11y ago

glibgil 11y ago
Think about the old people and the retardeds.
JustSomeNobody 11y ago
It's either subsidize $100/week and free health care or subsidize food stamps, emergency health care, etc... The whole point of a society is to NOT act as an individual.
- stretchwithme 11y ago
  Without individual action, a great many things would not exist. Some would say the point of having a society is to have rules that allow us to peacefully co-exist and trade with other. Its not to allow some to take advantage of others.
harryh 11y ago
Isn't is weird how some people in this thread say that the guy can only do it because of Australia's generous social programs. Meanwhile you think it would be easier if these didn't exist and taxes were lower. In reality I bet it's about as easy no matter what country you live in and what tax rates or social programs you have access to. Simply live a somewhat frugal life, save lots of money, and let the magic of compounding work over a decade or two. Rather than looking for excuses it's probably better to just get started.
- stretchwithme 11y ago
  I'm not searching for excuses. I'm a great saver and took several years off to work on apps and startups and a couple of book ideas. I'm very frugal. My last car lasted 15 years. Perhaps you'd be better off responding to what someone says instead of inventing imaginary motives.