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John wrote "It was our basic class gut instincts that stopped Malcolm Turnbull bringing home the GST bacon for his class." I agree totally with this, and in itself the reaction of the workers is worth considering. the First Budget of the right wing Coalition government was rejected though the opinion polls. this rejection stayed the course for two years until the change in leadership of the Coalition Government. Class rejectionism retreated and the Coalition government surged in the polls. But a return to a GST to fund tax cuts for the wealthy was too much and class rejectionism looked set to return to centre stage. that spooked Turnbull and he retreated. But the problems of funding education and health services remains. And it is the cuts in these areas that will mean that the class once more will need to become active. But all this happens in a very Australian way. Compulsory voting in Australia erodes the apathy that the ruling classes in USA and the UK depend on so much. Correspondingly electoralism seems so much more powerful. What is so needed is a transition from class rejectionism in the opinion polls to rejectionism in the streets. comradely Gary On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:52 AM, John Passant via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Why did Turnbull dump the proposed GST increase? > > You can put lipstick on a pig but most of us are not going to buy it. It > was our basic class gut instincts that stopped Malcolm Turnbull bringing > home the GST bacon for his class. > > > http://enpassant.com.au/2016/02/11/why-did-turnbull-dump-the-proposed-gst-increase/ > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
