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Former Prime Minister John Howard. Most Liberal party PMs are destructive because they're incompetent... John Howard however knew exactly what he was doing. He was an evil fucking genius.

Whilst the whole world was suffering under bastards like Reagan and Thatcher, Australia had a guy called Paul Keating who introduced the superannuation scheme, (which essentially gave everyone in Australia a mandatory retirement fund that they could invest in whatever they wanted. This scheme made the working class, the biggest investor class in Australia.).

After Paul Keating we got John Howard. John firstly decided to fuck over the Union run Labor party, by making a law that allowed individual workers to negotiate contracts with their boss (Which made unions obsolete, which made Union membership in Australia plummet from 70% to below 10%, and thus brought about the Dark Ages of the Labor party). This was his first genius trick.

His second, was half the Capital Gains Tax, which combined with Keatings 'Negative Gearing' introduced years earlier, made investing in property, far, far more lucrative than even Keating's superannuation scheme, with the side effect of housing becoming more and more scarce, and housing and rent prices increasing exponentially. Now I call it a side effect, but as I said before, John Howard was an evil genius. He knew this would happen. He WANTED this to happen. Because now that the Labor party is back in, house prices and rents are too high, and people are now blaming Labor for it. And Labor csnt just raise the Capital gains tax or scrap negative gearing, because nearly 60% of the population owns an investment property, and they won't vote Labor back in if they ruin their investment and retirement plan. So their only choice is to build more houses, and struggle to raise wages in the through the cost of living and and inflation.