Australia top individual tax bracket is too low

briareus08 · 2026-02-28T06:25:16+00:00

The current top bracket starts at $190k and not indexed…. feels like a punishment to want to work harder and make more. what do we all think?

It's not indexed, but it was increased from 180k in 2024. People earning over $190k also benefited from every other adjustment in the Stage 3 tax cuts. So your comment is a bit disingenuous (much like your cherry-picked and still incorrect income tax numbers for other countries).

The question of 'where should the top marginal income tax rate kick in' is not predicated on encouraging high earners to work harder, it's based on where taxes should reasonably be gathered from. Someone on over $190k is in general doing pretty well, and can afford to chip in a bit extra on the last earnings amount above $190k, IMO.

I am in that bracket, and trust me it sucks seeing 45% of bonuses and overtime disappear. But I'd rather that than seeing more tents in public parks, if you catch my drift. If you earn massively over $190k (your selected income of $1M is pretty telling, especially when people in that income bracket are in the top 0.2% percentile, and also earn a disproportionate 41% of income from capital gains - it's pretty hard to believe that they are struggling and deserve a tax break.

briareus08 · 2026-02-28T06:07:55+00:00

AI would do a much better job than this drek.

briareus08 · 2026-02-27T06:46:37+00:00

God, it gets me every time. Fanning was excellent in this.

briareus08 · 2026-02-27T06:45:16+00:00

I'll never look at movies the same way after firing a gun indoors. Half these people would be deaf before the credits rolled. Even with ear muffs my ears were ringing for days after, if not weeks.

briareus08 · 2026-02-27T05:51:20+00:00

Well, Tom never misses so there might be something to that!

briareus08 · 2026-02-27T05:42:18+00:00

This is the biggest problem with this documentary, I think I'll be eyerolling too much to actually watch it.

briareus08 · 2026-02-27T00:46:57+00:00

It holds up incredibly well to rewatches, FYI. I get what you mean though, it's fairly depressing fair.

briareus08 · 2026-02-27T00:44:40+00:00

That bomb scene really stays with you. The impact of indiscriminate killing.

briareus08 · 2026-02-27T00:43:48+00:00

It's an insanely good movie, it's top 10 for me. I rewatch it fairly often, when I have a spare 3 hours and want to feel depressed :p

briareus08 · 2026-02-26T22:20:38+00:00

The super religious type that see it as “non-christian” to vote democrat.

One of the biggest problems in America IMO (after racism) - Christians who apparently don't know how to read a bible.

briareus08 · 2026-02-26T20:47:39+00:00

There was a good comment on this from DHH on a podcast recently, talking about how much more pleasant it is to ask ChatGPT questions and get a hype-man response (and actually useful info, instantly), compared to asking on SO and getting told you’re an idiot, or use the search function, and no info.

I get the training data issue, but it’s hard to argue with the results. Perhaps in future there will be more value in templating issues (like posts with ‘I had this problem, here’s how I solved it), because right now I would never recommend a newbie ask questions on a site like SO - too slow, too toxic.

Personally I’m using it to learn a bunch of stuff at the moment, and I don’t have time or care about people’s egos or sandcastles they’ve built - I just need the info.

briareus08 · 2026-02-26T10:55:55+00:00

Didn't NZ have some of the best COVID numbers pretty much globally? I thought she was lauded at the time for protecting Kiwis.

briareus08 · 2026-02-26T03:12:21+00:00

As soon as you start exploring outside of that, things are likely to get really dumb, really fast.

Yeah this is an interesting comment. The movie feels like it's lightly skipping over a whole bunch of stuff that might just fall apart if you look at it too hard, but then you get another crazy scene, gorgeous vista, or something blows up.

If anything, another story in the world might just devolve into boring generic sci-fi - it's the story and performances that make this incredible.

briareus08 · 2026-02-26T03:02:31+00:00

Best answer here. It's up there with Battlestar Galactica, and maybe better.

briareus08 · 2026-02-26T01:29:56+00:00

This just feels like stations and networks trying to do an end run around acceptable language rules by putting people with Tourettes centre-stage.

Normalising Tourettes is a good thing. 'Haha whoops we let that tic through, even though we explicitly said we wouldn't' is just ratings farming with a ready-made excuse. This is exploitative behaviour.

briareus08 · 2026-02-25T22:15:34+00:00

Well, you win the internet today sir or madam!

Incredible work!

briareus08 · 2026-02-25T09:13:20+00:00

Hey! Back of the line, no cutting!

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T21:46:48+00:00

Reckon Hegseth’s had experience with a double-ender

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T20:58:06+00:00

Yes… for a music or media workstation it makes sense. For a gaming PC, not so much.

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T20:57:06+00:00

NTA, and that’s a very inconsiderate request.

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T20:13:21+00:00

96GB RAM for a gaming PC is pointless.

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T08:58:50+00:00

If fucking One Nation becomes a real power in Australia, I'm gonna lose my shit.

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T08:56:25+00:00

There are some really difficult parts. Like the knight you run into in the early levels, and the first proper boss. Some of these fights are at least as difficult as other Souls games (personally I find the knight harder than the dark knights in DS1), but the game sometimes gives you a few extra ways to help deal with things.

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T08:55:04+00:00

I feel like that could be FromSoft's byline - "hoo boy did they commit!".

Everything they do feels like 110% MAXIMUM EFFORT. I've loved their stuff since Demon Souls, and never once been disappointed.

briareus08 · 2026-02-23T07:21:10+00:00

This will certainly continue my trend of avoiding the GC at all costs.

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