Geoff Helios

WHY I LEFT AUSTRALIA (VIEWS FROM BEYOND THE IRON COASTLINE) It's been 4 months since I moved overseas. I uprooted my entire life, moved out of a newly renovated house, away from friends and family, away from the country I grew up in. But it was necessary. Because there's no other way to put it - they've fucked Australia. Like, really fucked it. I'm a hard worker. I worked long days, weekends. In a stressful, high pressure job. I took it seriously (which is rare, most people only half do things). In my spare time, I would spend hours (many hours) writing books and creating content online to make some extra money. But at the end of each month I was left with basically nothing. The government took most of it. Either straight away through income tax, or more insidiously through hidden taxes, inflation, and crazy regulatory requirements. And that money they stole from me wasn't taken to improve the country (I could probably live with that). The deranged communists in charge viewed themselves as gods. And they were redistributing my wealth in accordance with some structure of 'morality' that I didn't adhere to. The taxes imposed on me were considered just, because (under their morality) I did not deserve as much as I had, there were others more deserving. But I didn't agree with my money being stolen to build houses in the middle of nowhere, just for aboriginal welfare recipients who would ultimately tear them apart. I didn't agree with my money being stolen so that African migrants could fraudulently receive it via the NDIS. I didn't agree with my money being stolen so that Indian 'students' could move their families here through the student visa backdoor. And I didn't agree with my money being stolen to fund Chinese corporations building wind farms on all the farm land between Melbourne and Adelaide. I can't describe the feeling of hopelessness that comes with watching your labour fund the future of others. I went to a dark place when I realised that the work and stress I put myself through didn't help me or my family. It all felt... so futile. I was a tax slave being bled dry. And so I left. I moved somewhere where I keep my money. All of it. I've made 2 years of financial progress in the 4 months I've been out of the country (thanks to 0% tax, as well as the healthy salary increase that came with moving to a country with a real economy). And now looking back at Australia from the outside, I know I made the right move. It's a literal circus. The media is all propaganda. The government is communist. The people are trapped, prisoners. I knew this when I lived there. At least I was pretty sure I did. But seeing it from the outside solidified every hunch I had while living behind the Iron Coastline. The future of Australia is bleak. Citizens won't build wealth. No companies will invest there. And the Nanny State will need to keep increasing taxes on the small portion of the population that actually creates value to fuel their spending frenzy. And that can only go on for so long before it collapses. Good luck to everyone back home. I'm thinking of you. But all I can say is that there a countries out there that don't view wealth building as immoral, that understand how businesses work, and want the country to actually BECOME something. You should go there, probably.

Taxation is theft It’s used as a wealth redistribution tool They forcibly expropriate your wealth, then give it to their friends, immigrants, etc The theory is that these other groups are more deserving of the fruits of your labor This insidious ideology must be rejected

I work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Half of what I earn is ripped from my hands under threat of force by a government who hates me. Then it’s “redistributed” to migrants and aboriginals (who also hate me). And I’m expected to just shut up and live with this? No thank you.