Taxing times

Senate passes Labor tax amendments.

: "But the Opposition's amendments will eventually be defeated once the Government gains its Senate majority next month."

I heard the some of the debate yesterday and today. The papers were presented in a no nonsense fashion until the Liberals got up this morning and said they had had nine years of competent fiscal management and who was anybody to question that. The senate did vote in favour of the amendments which assist the middle/low income earners better. What is wrong with that? Oh..it wasn't their idea. How can senate pass amendments and then plain ignore them....or is this another case of crystal ball gazing and the Government has been told what it is going to do when it takes control of the senate? I think we need to abandon the notion of democracy. Both the Democrats and labour presented a sane solution to the tax reform inequities. Why bother debating if the issues are to be ignored?. It wasn't silly stuff. it made good sense to me to even it out a bit and the amendments are quite sane. They are ill founded.