Company tax a no-brainer
TREASURER Scott Morrison, as part of the upcoming budget, wishes to reduce company tax "to stimulate the economy resulting in job creation".
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This translates into bigger bonuses for the top echelon of business or friends of the Liberal government.
A recent poll survey found 3 per cent of voters thought cutting company tax should not be a top economic priority.
I might ask local member Michael McCormack to have Mr Morrison give these tax concessions to us oldies; believe me, we will spend it also creating jobs.
Peter Dolden
Wagga
Church will rise again
IN RESPONSE to Yvonne Rance's letter about the pope and gay marriage.
Active Catholic homosexuals have, throughout Catholic history, been accepted within the church.
You might be thinking of the ban initiated by Jesus Christ himself that sodomite homosexual acts are sinful.
In other words, sodomy is always sinful.
The difference not noticed perhaps by Yvonne is this: sinful people can and have always been able to attend mass and any other religious ceremonies in the Catholic Church.
What they cannot do is receive holy communion in a state of mortal sin.
That will never change.
No pope can ever say the religious law has changed.
The pope is a vicar of Christ - not Christ!
He cannot allow what is already prohibited in scripture.
The Catholic Church does show concern for all sinners.
Separating out one or two types of sinners is not very helpful.
In fact, the Catholic Church does offer the confessional as a way of reconciling all sinners, provided the sinner is prepared to change the lifestyle that led to sin.
I feel very sorry for Yvonne. She is looking for a scapegoat.
In that case, how many organisations in society should be scapegoats.
She blames the church for many things that were committed by individuals.
The church is representative of society. Parliamentarians are representative of society.
How many parliamentarians are not good, destroy the reputation of all parliamentarians, complain about almost every institution in the world?
We are what we are because of our progress or non-progress during the past 50 years.
The Catholic Church will go through its great tribulation and revival. It always has.
It will come out rebuilt, reinvigorated and ready once again to lead the world as it once did in all things moral and according to God's law - without pleasing those who would try to destroy it.
Lawrence Gregan
Wagga
Hands off our solar
THE NSW government’s lack of planning around the transition of early solar customers to new metering arrangements could trigger a crisis for 150,000 solar homes across the state.
Solar homeowners will be forced to pay for new meters that could cost up to $700, which in some cases provide less information about their solar than they currently have.
There’s no detail on how the meter change will roll out across the state and it’s not clear whether all solar homes can be fitted with new devices before the 60c/kWh feed-in price expires at the end of the year.
Any solar home left without a new meter will lose access to their solar power and be left paying more for non-solar electricity from the grid.
This needs to be fixed, fast.