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Tax blamed for IT skills crisis
By Helen Zampetakis
http://www.afr.com.au/content/981029/inform/inform1.html
Australia's taxation system is aggravating the chronic IT skills
crisis and ultimately making the local labour market globally
uncompetitive, a US industry analyst said yesterday.
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One would hope that the taxation reform promised by our newly
elected representatives (I don't like to call them leaders, that
would be word abuse) addresses these issues properly.
-- The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. -- Sydney Smith. Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820.Regards brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia brd@dynamite.com.au