You ever notice something about Labor? When they run out of money — which happens about as often as sunrise — they never, ever cut their own spending. They never sell the ministerial limo. They never shut down the pet projects. No. They come for you.
They raid your wallet, your super, your savings — and now, apparently, your home.
Jim Chalmers — Treasurer, economic prodigy in his own mind — is hosting an “economic roundtable.” Sounds nice. Sounds collaborative. It’s not. This is not some polite chat with tea and Tim Tams. This is a war council, a policy hit squad. Their mission? To find new and creative ways to bleed you dry without you noticing until it’s too late.
And one of the ideas floating around that table? A capital gains tax… on the family home.
Let me say that again for the people in the cheap seats: they want to tax your house. The one you worked for. The one you built. The one you’ve been paying off since John Howard was in office. The one you thought you could pass on to your kids as your legacy.
Now, under this plan, you’ll pass it on with a government invoice attached.
And of course, they’ll dress it up in their favourite word — “fairness.” “We’re making the tax system fairer,” they’ll say, while they funnel your hard-earned into whatever half-baked, vote-buying, feel-good scheme is trending in the ABC staff kitchen this week.
You know who won’t be paying this tax? Politicians. Because they’ll find exemptions. They’ll have trusts. They’ll have mates in law firms who make loopholes for breakfast.
But you? The plumber in Cessnock? The nurse in Maitland? You’ll cop it in the neck.
And while they’re lining up to take a piece of your house, what are we told to focus on? The Voice. Climate hysteria. Gender quotas in the surf lifesaving club. Drag Queen Story Time. Distraction after distraction after distraction — anything to stop you from noticing the fact they’re moving in on the roof over your head.
I’ll tell you what this is — it’s the WEF’s “You’ll own nothing and be happy” mantra, now with an Aussie accent. They’re not hiding it anymore. They’re testing how much they can take before you finally push back.
And here’s the danger — if they get away with taxing your home, what can’t they tax? Your car? Your backyard veggie patch? Your kids’ lemonade stand? It sounds absurd until you realise 90% of the absurd things we see today started as “That’ll never happen.”
And they always happen when good people keep quiet.
This is feudalism 2.0. You rent your own life back from the government. They let you live in “your” house, as long as you keep paying them for the privilege. Miss a payment, fall behind, ask too many questions — suddenly, it’s not yours anymore.
Meanwhile, the Canberra elite are laughing all the way to their investment properties — which, by the way, will never be taxed the same way as yours.
Australians need to wake up. Not in the “woke” sense — God knows we’ve got enough of that. I mean wake up to what’s happening right under our noses.
Because here’s the truth: if you don’t own your home, you don’t own your future. And if the government can take a slice of that whenever they feel like it, you’re not free. You’re a tenant of the State.
And I don’t know about you — but I didn’t work my guts out just to hand the keys to my house over to a government that couldn’t even organise an NBN connection without blowing billions.
So Jim Chalmers — keep your hands off our homes. Keep your hands out of our pockets. And for once in your political life, try living within your means… before you decide to take more of ours.