Dear Australian Taxation Office
October 2nd 2006 10:57
Dear Australian Taxation Office
Today I received a Higher Education Contribution Scheme Information statement in my mail informing me that I had $11730 owing on my compulsory repayment. Now I’m not exactly raking it in right now and I read that you guys had an $8 billion surplus when your delightful treasurer Peter Costello spoke about the budget last year… $8 billion is a lot of money, and $11730 is a substantially small fraction of this. I don’t know what the exact percentage would be, unfortunately I didn’t accumulate my HECS debt on a maths degree. I only earned between 25-30 thousand last year. Anyway, seeing as you made so much last year and I made so little (and it looks like I will continue to make so little) I was wondering if you could let me off and wipe my HECS debt clear. I promise not to tell anyone else. I think you all do a smashing job and I imagine it must be stressful at times and a terrible bore, but I think you guys do marvelously all the same. I figure that the $8 billion comes from all our taxes and so on anyway so it would just be silly for me to pay the HECS as well, especially as my university education has done so little for me in terms of employment. I don’t mean that disrespectfully, I just thought I might as well ask seeming as we all did so well and maybe you could share it around a bit by helping a member of our country’s struggling workforce. I’m a nice person too and I used to give money to Amnesty International and everything so it’s not like you would be helping out some kind of mean person or loafer.
Thank you, a proud citizen of this country, Luke.
Today I received a Higher Education Contribution Scheme Information statement in my mail informing me that I had $11730 owing on my compulsory repayment. Now I’m not exactly raking it in right now and I read that you guys had an $8 billion surplus when your delightful treasurer Peter Costello spoke about the budget last year… $8 billion is a lot of money, and $11730 is a substantially small fraction of this. I don’t know what the exact percentage would be, unfortunately I didn’t accumulate my HECS debt on a maths degree. I only earned between 25-30 thousand last year. Anyway, seeing as you made so much last year and I made so little (and it looks like I will continue to make so little) I was wondering if you could let me off and wipe my HECS debt clear. I promise not to tell anyone else. I think you all do a smashing job and I imagine it must be stressful at times and a terrible bore, but I think you guys do marvelously all the same. I figure that the $8 billion comes from all our taxes and so on anyway so it would just be silly for me to pay the HECS as well, especially as my university education has done so little for me in terms of employment. I don’t mean that disrespectfully, I just thought I might as well ask seeming as we all did so well and maybe you could share it around a bit by helping a member of our country’s struggling workforce. I’m a nice person too and I used to give money to Amnesty International and everything so it’s not like you would be helping out some kind of mean person or loafer.
Thank you, a proud citizen of this country, Luke.
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Comment by Anonymous
Not only do we pay too much for not enough but we all are shoved into uni practically by force if we get the marks (forces one might call "scary, angry parents" or "social pressure") because we're told that we can't get a good job unless we qualify from somewhere... anywhere. We're victims of our society I tell you! VICTIMS!
(And now I reflect on this passage and think of people that live every day with terror in war torn places I do not see and people who starve and die... or are really really sick... and I feel selfish- but seriously... eleven grand is alot of money! who can help being a little selfish every now and then?)