Australian TEA Party: Taxed Enough Already!
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by Adam Beck
Greetings Australians.
Today I am pleased to announce the birth of the Australian TEA Party, a political faction that holds true to its Conservative Libertarian views, including lower taxes, more economic freedom for business, and fiscal responsibility.
To help better inform the public on what the ATP is all about, I will elaborate on the previously listed topics:
Lower Taxes
The best way to grow an economy and maximize revenue for the government is by lowering taxes. The ATP will continuously push for the protection of businesses from outrageous taxes imposed by backwards-thinking socializers. We must push for more economic freedom for business to grow our economy.
Fiscal Responsibility
Greed is the ultimate cause of corruption. We must elect Senators and Prime Ministers who stick true to keeping a balanced budget and spending within our limits. This also includes being thrift. It is okay to have a large surplus of money in our Reserves. It prepares us for when we have our backs against the wall. We then have nothing to fear, because we are prepared. We also avoid becoming "slaves" to other countries who may loan us money.
The ATP also believes in the following 9 principles and 12 values laid out by the late Corey Blake. These are high standards that each of us should strive to achieve:
9 Principles
1. Australia is good
2. I believe in myself and my abilities.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday
4. eLife is sacred. I am the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not unpatriotic for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
12 Values
1. Honesty
2. Reverence
3. Hope
4. Thrift
5. Humility
6. Charity
7. Sincerity
8. Moderation
9. Hard work
10. Courage
11. Personal Responsibility
12. Gratitude
So if you feel you fit in with the Australian TEA Party, feel free to join. Help the Common Sense Movement spread its wings in eAustralia. (Forums are being set up as this article is being printed. Link will be provided at a later time.)
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Yeah, just what we need, yet another useless party.
Taxes? Really? Couldn't you come up with a better focus? What do you do when we lower taxes, disband?
Forums are here http://community.auserepublik.com/index.php
Best of luck with everything. Can't say I'll help out though, mainly because you have called it the Tea party which IRL is just a plain old retarded right wing group full of people that don't actually have a clue. But hey, that's just me venting about the debt ceiling thing going on
Why create an Australian TEA Party? We already have the ANP who stands for all that you said.
Lower taxes ftw
G'luck, although you should find the economy system IRL doesnt work here.
>We also avoid becoming "slaves" to other countries who may loan us money.
eAustralia has never taken a loan in the history of erep
WTH, the TEA party here? And another waste of another party.
Taxes are already low enough as it is here.
Why didn't you simply resurrect your Corey Blake character instead of making a new one? Or is it because you'd made a name for yourself under that nick as a total douche? Your values are total BS since we all know what you did in your previous account.
- Agent S
Please elaborate Agent S.
Can't say I'll help out though, mainly because you have called it the Tea party which IRL is just a plain old retarded right wing group full of people that don't actually have a clue. x2
You do realise the Australian TEA Party has nothing to do with policy debate? It was a mere concept born from the vitriol of the RL American far right-wing fringes, whose splinter movement down under forms the single largest collective of pathetic morons who never got invited to the grown up table of politics and who never will. If this was merely a lulz exercise for the sake of comedy then thumbs up, but if this is some cockamamie attempt to infiltrate the e-world with a simulation of this RL filth then expect to receive all that it deserves.
How many people here who commented are actually Americans? Because a lot of you seem to be attacking the American Tea Party more than the Australian TEA Party.
It's sad to say but if you aren't American you have no right to talk. You have no idea what it's like to have an idiot leading your country into oblivion with trillions of dollars spent and continually blaming his problems on other people.
But I do think that bringing in RL parties like this isn't the greatest idea. It will only cause problems like we see in the comments above.
Lancer the problem with your little protest is that when simulations of RL products or issues are brought into our digital domain that people have views on, each and every citizen has the right to comment and can quite rightly do so. I'll leave it at that, sufficed to say I'll more than happily comment on further if provoked to do so.
What is natural and pleasing is the consensus built here that RL groups, particularly entrenched in extensive controversy, have a problematic place in the e-world. This has been the way of things and it's futile to argue over that which has always been the sensible approach.
Cheers.
TJ Norton, I understand, but I was just pointing out that many people have commented most likely based off of biased information. And some have made comments without being a citizen of the US, which would most likely mean they have only heard what the US government and mainstream media wants them to hear about the Tea Party. I wasn't literally saying that those who said something cannot talk, I was simply saying it is of no use since they have no clue what the REAL Tea Party stands for.
And I said that above. I said that it wasn't the greatest idea to bring something as controversial as political parties in game.
correction: "And I said that above. I said that it wasn't the greatest idea to bring something as controversial as RL political parties in game."
I love you Mickey
Our income tax rate is 5%, import tax at 15% and VAT at 15%. Any lower than that we can't fund our MPP's and soldiers.
The previous congress dabbled a bit with taxes, but this congress made tax reform its very first issue and the lowering of taxes to the present level received universal support.
Every once in a while someone starts pushing for raising import taxes, but generally, if you look at their profile, they are an active general manager. Higher import taxes benefits the bottom line of general managers but hurts the people as a whole. Practically the entire current congress understands this.
Congress, over the past year strayed from the low tax approach. All I can see the TPA doing is keeping an eye on those congressmen who want to increase import taxes to build their own cash flow.
It may be, as these wars continue, that short term increases in taxes may be necessary, but I know the current congress, at least, would return them to low levels as soon as possible.
^Well said.
Personally I prefer coffee, but hey there's plenty of room in eAus for plurality of political views so welcome.
Just a question re Value 2 - Reverence. What do you revere?
Nirvana has already been achieved through my taxation vision. The TEA party will have to move onto killing abortionists.
Mate, keep your RL discussions elsewhere.
6 parties is already too many for eAus. Plus what Infin said.
We have a TEA Party, it's the ANP.
>Personally I prefer coffee, but hey there's plenty of room in eAus for plurality of political views so welcome.
We have the Australian COFFEE Party already...
See? Even DocterDry agrees that the ANP is a bunch of loonies 😉
"The previous congress dabbled a bit with taxes".
Excuse me, Wally, but the previous Senate passed lower taxes on food when it came to the crunching import tax affecting our trading relationships. The idea that it just "dabbled" gave the impression that it sat on it's hands. Interestingly and important to note is that the ANP Senators bar two (Ronny and Wazzatron) were the only ones to come out against it and that was for commercial reasons in the case of Ronny and a lack of understanding the game on the part of Wazz. The hold up at the time was clearly the-then opposition (AI and GNG) with whose help we could have got passage. It adds to the oddity further as a number of leading figures from both parties supported the lowering of taxes, yet when it came down to it it failed by 2 votes (inc.) With their support, the support that somehow has come from the nether regions of understanding why it wasn't there last term, has now come to pass.
All in all, politics .. politics .. politics. That was the one and only hold up.
I think he meant tea bag party...
- Agent S
If it smacks of any kind of Americanism it won't fly in eAustralia even if it was coated in gold and the best deal ever. Nice try Adam Beck.
Sigh, another party...
yeah American values don't go down too well in Australia. Aussies embrace mediocrity
I see the TEA Party is now the Libertarian Party with a neo-liberal banner. Unshakable values. One vision. True politician.
To your credit, at least you take valid criticism to heart and seem adaptable.