Recent content by Optimus Prime

Yes Garnaut's suggestion is great as lowering the tax free threshold is fair and also has greatest impact for those on lower incomes (since they need to spend a larger percentage of their income on basic living expenses) while also benefiting those on higher incomes. Unfortunately that is...

The government would never ban it because a) prohibition has never worked, ever. b) there'd be a $5 bn hole in the budget.

Assuming that something is going to be done about climate change then a carbon tax is the best way. Fuck off direct action. Fuck off "emissions trading scheme." ETS is more accurately a scheme in which more wealth is transferred to banks. If we agree there are negative externalities associated...

Don't worry you can definitely swear at cops in NSW

while the clothes have no effect girls who dress like sluts also usually get drunk and put themselves in unsafe situations. As for slutwalk: well yes, no woman should get raped and what you wear has no effect on the chances of that, it will affect whether or not you are respected. Just as if...

because they can't compete with each other, not because it will reduce smoking.

I did about 30 hours legit (back when 50 was required), but like heaps and heaps of 20 minute drives that I never wrote down. When you first drive without someone it feels so weird, and I swear you feel like you have forgotten everything. I reckon the years on your Ps are much "learning" to...

Don't know about that, marxism killed a fuck load of Chinese people too.

meh, very few people have the skill to take advantage of the extra power, especially on the road. Not worth the extra insurance, worse fuel economy and weight tbh. I want a GSXR-750.

You mean like last year when they increased the price of cigarettes by 25% overnight? Cigarette smokers already pay far, far more in taxes than the tangible cost burden they impose on the healthcare system. What would have real effects on reducing the rate was if proven effective treatments for...

Extreme right-wing and libertarian is an oxymoron.

Will have no effect on overall smoking rate while removing the only way in which cigarette companies can differentiate themselves apart from price... seems pretty fucking dumb to me.

Hyo 650s are a joke. Unfortunately stickier and wider tires more than made up for the extra weight, except in the really tight bits. But in those bits he can accelerate back up to speed so much quicker it doesn't matter. Also it's an R6... my VTR is great, I love it, but it's just not in the...

Meh, sports cars are for fun, buy a civic or rolla for daily driving. I reckon it's still too heavy but Zs always have been. My uncle has a convertible 350z and it was cool the ease of which you could make the back kick out but even at legal speeds on a twisty road its weight is noticeable. Much...

They guy who I bought my bike off had a gorgeous black 370Z with carbon fibre trimmings and shit