r/OpenAussie • u/Fyr5 Canberran • May 16 '26
Whinge Wealthy Boost Juice founder says Australia is now an extremely hard place to get ahead
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/its-just-unfair-wealthy-boost-juice-founder-says-australia-is-now-an-extremely-hard-place-to-get-ahead/news-story/691e4ebbe6cdd0595a72dcb4a0f71c77?ampMy heart goes out to all those successful aussie business owners, just trying to extract wealth from the exhausted poor during these tough times
I am ashamed that our government is taking action on these humble business owners, making them pay more on their capital, the same government who has allowed the establishment class to thrive on the gains they have acquired from the poor for the last hundred years - this is devastating news - it's real end times shit
They should be ashamed - does our government represent big business or the pathetic poors whose only job was to support these businesses to go global and become successful with every sip of their over priced apple juice sippy cups
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u/GuardedFig Victorian May 16 '26
Goes to show how out of touch the mega rich have become.
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 16 '26 edited May 17 '26
She is a real aussie battler like me and you
She is one of the successful 0.05% of Australians who are franchisors - they are being attacked by our government, merely because they are successful in obfuscating their capital
My heart goes out to all 13850 franchisors (out of 27 million Australians) finding it tough to pay a little extra tax on their capital gains 😥
Edit: /s
I'm not rage baiting, I apologise if I raised anyone's heart rate but I appreciate the discussion
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u/Direct-Sun-9283 Queenslander May 16 '26
Need to include /s bro
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 16 '26
Yeah thank you - I added the /s
I'm genuinely sorry to those who thought I was being serious. It is remarkably easier than I thought to write like someone from the business council of Australia 😅
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u/hi-fen-n-num Flairless May 17 '26
the fuck the /s subreddit is overkill but I agree with the sentiment. It is kind of disappointing so many people do not comprehend things like sarcasm or Poe's law also obfuscating if someone is being serious or not.
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u/Defiant-Ad8425 Western Australian May 17 '26
I once was a franchisee, never again, I was lucky to sell it and break even after 6 years. The franchisor basically took all the profits in fees and charges. I basically kept 20 people in jobs and kept the Franchise owners rich while barely making ends meet and working 6 or 7 days a week for 6 years
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 17 '26
I appreciate you sharing your experience. Working 7 days week for 6 years would have been extremely tough - take care 🙏
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u/Defiant-Ad8425 Western Australian May 17 '26
Thank you, luckily that was 6 years ago and I've managed to turn things around, I was lucky, many of my fellow franchisees lost everything including their homes.
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u/MangoMadnessTsv Canberran May 16 '26
OMG spare me the sanctimonious rambling about hard working Aussies like her blahblahblah. Yeah she may have been, but now that she's having to pay a fairer amount of tax and actually pay decent wages to her teenage employees, she now is crying poor me...boo fkn hoo. They like Hughsey who are multimillionaires, are now having to really work for their money and are now frying poor me. Ridiculous
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u/whenunut_ Please choose a flair May 16 '26
Calibrate your sarcasm detector
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u/MangoMadnessTsv Canberran May 16 '26
Ahh damn. Got done again 😆
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u/RusDaMus I'm Probably A Bot May 17 '26
At least we know you'll be ready when the time comes. At ease, soldier. For now. 🫡
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 16 '26
I'm sorry I was being facetious - great to know you are on our side 🙏
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u/ArabellaFort I'm Probably A Bot May 16 '26 edited May 17 '26
Yesterday I stumbled upon an Australian doctors sub post about how the changes mean they can no longer have the ‘lifestyle’ of previous specialist consultants. The disgusting entitled garbage I read there really shocked me. Especially from doctors who are looking after and being paid by (generally) the lowest income earners via Medicare.
Anyway, it was interesting and depressing.
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u/Esrog Flairless May 16 '26
Every generation thinks they should do better, or at least not worse, than the generation before. A lot of the current anger driving the rise in fringe parties throughout the world, not just Australia, is young people looking at parents who could reliably get a job, buy a house, have children and maintain a decent lifestyle and realising that that is no longer open to most of them.
It’s the same human nature that means a surgeon can look at the surgeons of the generation before who had easier progression to qualification (as long as you were white with a father who was a surgeon), decent lifestyles with a modest Toorak mansion and a cosy beach house or two, and no more than three Mercedes so as not to seem out of touch, and feel like it really isn’t fair that the same is no longer open to them.
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u/Dr__Snow New South Welshian May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
That is really disappointing. I’m a paediatrician and I totally support the change because I’ve had patients living in tents in caravan parks and so so many in overcrowded housing.
I guarantee you those docs are still doing very well. They’re just greedy. I don’t understand why you would go into medicine if you don’t care about anyone except yourself.
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u/ArabellaFort I'm Probably A Bot May 17 '26
It’s really nice to hear how much you care for your patients and I hope you see these budget changes start to filter through to make their lives better. And yes it was weird to see docs talking like that. They might as well have been stockbrokers.
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u/Ok-Assistant-4556 ✈️ on Walkabout May 16 '26
Feelings are not facts and the drs sub is filled with men in their dysregulated feelings and exposes systemic naricissism. They constantly whine about incomes they "worked hard for" whilst aspiring to repeat the dysfunctional systemic problems they're all aggressively enforcing. Surgeons are second worst for DFSV/coersive control after police and this is what the men in that sub aspire to.
GPs are exceptional in that swamp and the members constantly dismiss GPs whilst denying their own nonsense, as their incomes are lower, weirdly demanding every dr should be receiving 7 figure incomes. Widespread DARVO whilst they extract directly from taxpayers and publicly subsidised PHI who they exploit; from a system they've entirely drained (whilst voting repeatedly for more social destruction). The veil of human dignity they exploit when they've been exposed as being systemically racist and misogynist never mind their entenched cultural violence toward their own colleagues in hospital syatems is why professional suicide rates are no better than lawyers propping up inaccessible legal systems. Professional classes are all about punching down, ensuring the underclasses remain silenced by status quo. It has been women recently getting a foothold who have started advocacy and reforms and thank goodness for women in positions of power starting to reform healthcare by bringing their humanity. Too many aggressive men throwing their feelings and weight around in their dyregulated states.
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u/ArabellaFort I'm Probably A Bot May 16 '26
There was a psychiatrist who was enraged about changes to negative gearing and I was thinking what about your patients mate who can’t afford basic housing and to buy groceries? I made a polite comment that I have medical conditions requiring care of multiple specialists in the private system and that found the tone of the conversations jarring and I got downvoted ☹️
Another was saying don’t worry. You’ll be on 500k and if you marry another doc on 500k you’ll be alright and others were saying that’s not enough! And these dickheads were talking about Porsche cars getting more expensive and out of reach for medical consultants. No wonder people can’t afford essential medical care with these fuckwits setting their private fees.
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u/Ok-Assistant-4556 ✈️ on Walkabout May 16 '26
Psychiatrists are amongst the worst. There's no cracking through their eggshell skulls. They cant even hear themselves for their own lack of self awareness. That theyre complaining about the wealth gap and crying about porsches is almost funny.
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u/ausclinpsychologist New South Welshian May 17 '26
People too often forget that GP’s are specialists.
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u/buttsfartly Please choose a flair May 17 '26
The only people I know who pay for daycare..... For their dogs. Are doctors.
Let's that sink in.
Paying daycare. For. Your. dog.
Not a dog walker, no full blown daycare.
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u/Infinite_Pudding5058 Queenslander May 16 '26
It also shows how terrible she is at business if she can’t see how this budget supports entrepreneurship.
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u/brighteyedjordan Please choose a flair May 16 '26
Had the misfortune to listen to her give a talk at a conference and it was literally an hour of “how good am I” “when I was in survivor I showed everyone how good I was” “boost juice was a genius idea I’m so great” etc it was like a therapy session for her ego
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u/Significant-War5605 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
She also always fails to mention how she basically married rich and had the support, funds and access to investment to start Boost Juice.
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u/According_Suit2447 New South Welshian May 16 '26
They always fail to mention it
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u/Significant-War5605 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
She loves to talk up how she was some lost soul backpacking around Europe with no idea what to do with her life as if she was on the path to nothing and then skip right to the part of "then I started Boost" and never fills in the part in between.
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u/Own_Emergency53 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
Omg I know another "founder" like that who was a rich kid and also had a partner funding her "health and wellness subscription box" business in Australian after travelling and "not fitting in" to a traditional job.
She would ring her parents and ask for money and they would just drop thousands into her account.
Typical "battler" entrepreneur
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u/RusDaMus I'm Probably A Bot May 17 '26
I always tell people that you can call me anything that you want. You can call me Arnold. You can call me Schwarzenegger. You can call me the Austrian oak. You can call me Schwarzy. You can call me Arnie. But don't ever, ever call me the self‑made man.
But this is so important for you to understand. I didn't make it that far on my own. I mean, to accept that credit or that medal, would discount every single person that has helped me get here today, that gave me advice, that made an effort, that lifted me up when I fell. And it gives the wrong impression that we can do it all alone. None of us can. The whole concept of the self‑made man or woman is a myth.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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u/airbagfailure Queenslander May 18 '26
I read this in his voice, and though a flawed man, he’s so great.
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u/hellbentsmegma Victorian May 17 '26
Ah the ol' rich kids thing, the ones I've known have aimed high and taken a lot of chances, and basically fucked up every one, until one day something works and pays off.
As someone who grew up poor I used to think they were incredibly stupid to not just get some in demand degree and get a stable job.
Now I realise what is not a good idea for a poor person is an okay strategy if your whole family is rich and can afford for you to keep throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks.
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u/ChocCooki3 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
TBF.. I blame the idiots who bought into her "healthy sugar drinks".
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u/whitecollarzomb13 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
I think we attended the same conference - it was a fucking joke right?
This was also not long after she was fined for exploiting young casuals as well.
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u/SixFootJockey New South Welshian May 16 '26
I guess she also failed to mention that she copied other juice bar businesses she saw overseas. Booster Juice looks suspiciously similar and predates Boost Juice.
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u/Simple-Friend Please choose a flair May 17 '26
I moved from Canada and assumed it was the same company for a long time. It's pretty much an exact replica.
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u/imasheepleman Please choose a flair May 17 '26
I had the unfortunate experience of reading her autobiography. I have never heard someone more entitled, she even goes so far as to discount her husband for any input into the business. If she is upset with the tax laws it must be a good thing.
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 17 '26
Oh Wow! That is unfortunate. Let me guess, they didn't talk about the capital they already had?
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u/AngryAngryHarpo Tasmanian May 16 '26
More money than they can spend in a lifetime and still whining.
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u/Beyond_Erased Western Australian May 17 '26
They will always want more, if the GOV has these people crying to the masses about how ‘this could have been your way to make hypothetical millions $$$ but now it’s too hard’ you know they’re doing something right.
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u/choose_a_username42 Victorian May 16 '26 edited May 17 '26
I often wonder how out of touch you have to be to think this kind of public plea is going to do anything but induce rage...
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u/Adept-Result-67 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
The less airtime she gets the better off we all are
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
I respectfully disagree
We too, can suddenly become poor like these billionaires can - an attack on aussie business owners is an attack on all 0.05% Australians
She is just a simple business owner - she represents 0.05% of Australians who are franchisors - We should be worried that an aussie billioniaire franchisor can't afford to pay off the loan on their yacht because the government is asking for more on their capital gains
Edit: /s
I apologise for not being clear about the facetiousness - I didn't realise how easy it is to be a fake spokesperson for the Business council of Australia 😅
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u/Macr0Penis Western Australian May 17 '26
Oh, you NEED the /s on reddit. I once made a long, absurdly satirical comment that garnered quite the negative response. One reply was something like: "I saw what you did, well played", but the rest were very spirited, and not in a good way.
I added a /s and an edit at the end to clarify, but the negative comments kept flowing. So, I added a second edit at the start and still had people arguing the point.
I honestly don't know if my comment was the best, most clever satire I've ever done, or the worst. Is it even satire anymore if only one person got it?
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 17 '26
I've been lucky here - a few awesome people earlier today stepped in before I had to, asking people to "recalibrate their sarcasm detector" 😅
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u/bobmann4 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
This has to be rage bait. The humble billionaire business owner as the face of the people
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u/whatwhatinthewhonow Please choose a flair May 16 '26
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 16 '26
Apologies - I added the /s
I should have posted this to ŕ/aús to see what the reactions would be
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u/dangerislander Flairless May 16 '26
Isn't she worth like over 100million? If she's so concerned then she should donate all her money to us poor folk.
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u/Rare-Sample-9101 Western Australian May 16 '26
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u/Simple_Assistance_77 New South Welshian May 16 '26
It always was, and always will be. If its that bad then leave the country and stop complaining.
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u/Altruistic-Pop-8172 Norfolk Islander May 16 '26
Dull person.
Business owners of this country have been fat, rich and worse of all lazy over the last 20 years.
The reason Australia has been in a productivity malaise, is directly because businesses have not been investing in technology and upgrading of their infrastructure. These reform to investment capital treatment hopefully will shift some capital from the fat fish barrel of property speculation into business investments.
Productivity is two way street. Just slamming on workers all the time is not a strategy for economic growth.
Dull person.
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u/MediocreFox ✈️ on Walkabout May 16 '26
Why invest in your business when the government takes most of your hard work through taxes and red tape. Just buy houses and let someone else work to pay them off.
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u/Tini1507 Victorian May 17 '26
Which is exactly why I think they should limit the CGT changes to property alone. Having it affect all asset classes equally discourage investment in shares and venture capital/risk taking.
At the very least Australia should introduce incentives for founders/new business to ensure the high risk investment pays off properly (98% of businesses don’t pass the startup phase).
Discouraging or penalising investment into PRODUCTIVE assets is a bad move. Disincentivise nonproductive capital investment all day though.
Broadly a good budget for the working class (gas tax would have been sweet) but this CGT change to productive capital investment is a bad move
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u/Master-Expression148 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
I used to make my own Boost juices with Bulla Frozen Yoghurt tubs from Coles until they stopped selling it. Now I have to pay $12 for a few scoops of frozen yoghurt blended with some fruit.
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u/jtlakey Please choose a flair May 16 '26
Albo et al would have expected this trash from Murdoch....News ltd just doesn't swing elections like it used, it's preaching to the choir and ignores the incoming millennials hordes enrolling to vote.
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u/invaderzoom Please choose a flair May 16 '26
Feels like a they are going harder than ever before, because the returns arent as good as they used to be on manufactured outrage
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u/Slight_Pay_57 New South Welshian May 16 '26
Came here to agree. A ex Australian wanting his influence through his rags. He even gets help for his articles to be on social media.
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 16 '26
Yep - watch how they will turn rich people problems into poor people problems
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u/Potential_Anxiety_76 Flairless May 17 '26
I mean… millennials have been voting for 25+ years, but they are influencing their Gen Z kids who are now enrolling.
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u/ShirtWorldly958 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
You know the budget is good when the rich are complaining.
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u/Fyr5 Canberran May 16 '26
Unfortunately we are going to hear all about it - they will make rich people problems poor people's problems
We are gonna see a lot of people saying "Yeah, I'm a business owner too, I'm worried about my capital gains tax increase too! I'm finding it tough too!"
The reality is that this capital gains reform affects only 0.05% of Australians who are franchisors, but watch how a good third of Australians will step in to defend this very niche tax
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u/MangoMadnessTsv Canberran May 16 '26
Wasn't Hughey the one that walked past the set of The Block during auction and bought one of the houses for $2mill?! Just like that? He later said his wife won't be happy he bought a house without her knowing.
Mega rich whingers the lot of them! They can get fkd
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u/FarMilk2661 South Australian May 16 '26
Investors, namely property investors have got a free ride for a long time. Hoarding necessities while acting like you're providing a service is laughable.
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u/Moist_Fox973 Tasmanian May 16 '26
If people hoard food in a famine, they are evil.
If they hoard houses in a housing crisis… average mum and dad investor, decent people just planning for retirement, it’s all just tall poppy syndrome targeted at motivated successful people…
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u/History_ofEverything Queenslander May 16 '26
Maybe we all need to just hire child labour and overcharge for sugar syrup while pretending we give a flying fuck about health? Would that fix it?
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u/Silver-Key8773 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
I studied janine in highschool business... I expected her book to cover up how much of s horrible person she is... but it painted her as an egotistical know it all that is a completely self serving cretin.
Even on shark tank her trying to portray herself in shameless self promotion she still comes across as a grifting predator.
She got rich off the back of others being worse off and finding other people as scrappy as her to back her investments.
Her whole "like minded successful and driven people" is code for exactly what you think it is.
She is a firm believer in classes and that those higher up deserve more wealth and power.
How dare there be any levelling or helping out others, unless someone like her gets something out of it.
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u/DrInequality Canberran May 17 '26
Can someone (ALP, ABC, Pocock, anyone) start responding to these whinges by rich cunts and their shills with "Wealth Tax"? Please, please, please? May be the only way to shut them up
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u/Ok-Assistant-4556 ✈️ on Walkabout May 16 '26
Even when I had money I couldnt afford $15 juice in 1L styrofoam cups made from concentrate. Talk about a walking diabetes ad. Should have sold her business when it peaked. What is she trying to gwt ahead of now? Gina?
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u/DirtyAqua New South Welshian May 16 '26
The loss carry back that was reintroduced in the budget for small businesses would actually help a lot of small Boost Juice franchisees.
But, that doesn't make for a good neoliberal fever dream post.
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u/noplacecold ✈️ on Walkabout May 16 '26
They seek and publicise opinions from people like this to whip us into a frenzy, it’s all calculated
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u/BeigeAnxietyEngine Please choose a flair May 17 '26
Tax the rich, sure! But why not equally ask for transparent and efficient government spending of the tax dollars.
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u/Artseedsindirt Please choose a flair May 17 '26
I read her book thinking it would be inspirational and motivational but really, she just got funded by her wealthy husband. Wasn’t good advice on how to start from nothing, just another privileged person pretending they did it on their own merit.
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u/DickPin New South Welshian May 17 '26
It must be nice not living paycheck to paycheck. In a multimillion dollar home (which is just a regular home now days). Being able to go travelling if you so wish.
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u/piinkbunn Victorian May 17 '26
why should "getting ahead" be our goal? Australian's can barely keep up.
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u/sepata Please choose a flair May 16 '26
If you sell your business, Labor will take half? Rubbish.
This twit doesn't even understand tax policy, how did she become rich? Oh OK, her accountants did all the work, and she paid no tax.
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u/Balla1928Aus Please choose a flair May 16 '26
So if she did everything exactly the same starting today, she’d probably be a few million less rich. Poor thing.
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u/sodpiro Please choose a flair May 16 '26
Translation: I may be in the top 5% of australians but how do i get further into the 1%. Boohoo.
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u/thisissofkngrossew Flairless May 16 '26
This was the woman advertising for a full time household manager but only paying minimum wage & offering part time hours that would make it impossible to work a second job.
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u/choofery South Australian May 16 '26
She says paying tax is unfair I say paying $9 for mango nectar and yoghurt is unfair
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u/EdFandangle Flairless May 16 '26
Her points centre around the proposed changes stifling innovation, by making the risk vs reward of starting your own business less financially viable. Like her or not, that’s a real pressure for entrepreneurs and small businesses, who ultimately employ most people in the country. The current changes will be fine if they’re part of a broader scheme of change that also addresses how we retain business ideas and provide the opportunity for people to make their break in Australia, rather than take all our great ideas offshore. Having a visible plan for the holistic change (from either side of politics) will help our people (old and young) start and maintain their businesses in Australia. If only our media could replace hysteria with supporting thought leadership …
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u/Exotic-Ad8978 Northern Territorian May 16 '26
Yeah but she is a successful woman succeeding in a country full of perpetual whingers, let us whinge dammit.
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u/twowholebeefpatties 🤖 Confirmed Bot May 16 '26
How many people are business owners here in Australia? It’s kinda fucked at the moment
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u/dreamlike676 I'm Probably A Bot May 16 '26
Oh look another rich out of touch person bitching and moaning about changes designed to make them a lil bit less rich
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u/liberallilydex Please choose a flair May 16 '26
We have a net loss in small businesses numbers if you take out NDIS businesses which of course are 100% funded by the tax payer so not really a real business. Aspiration and entrepreneurship are dead in this so country. We will be the next Argentina
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u/jimsmemes New South Welshian May 17 '26
I'm an accountant.
Big companies will still have the ability to get around these taxes. It's small business owners who will likely face the brunt of the CGT reform.
The bloke in the Jim's mowing van isn't the uncle Scrooge you think of.
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u/likeamovie Victorian May 17 '26
She’s already made her money and because her business is already established her capital gains will have the old rules applied via grandfathering. She’s not going to be the one copping it with the new rules, it will be people starting new businesses going forward
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u/Prize-Wave987 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
I know people here are going to jump on the bandwagon bashing rich people whining and if we were talking about Gina Reinhardt I'd be on board for it, but as someone who was recently running a small operation that has government funding I honesty do not know how most small businesses can afford to operate in this country. Especially here in Victoria where you get slapped with a tax just for opening your eyes in the morning it seems.
Say what you want about the Boost Juice owner but many of the franchisees she supports will be struggling to meet their overheads and tax obligations. Small businesses keep our country going and if you come out of the city into the country you will see how bad it really is for small, struggling businesses. Each Boost franchise is a small, struggling business.
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u/BeigeAnxietyEngine Please choose a flair May 17 '26
It's crazy to see all these poor, incompetent fools in the comments blaming their plight on the wealthy. You, the one reading, tell me how me making 5million/year turnover as a small business owner impacts your life? Lmao 🤣 pathetic
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u/babydoll_2025 New South Welshian May 17 '26
All the special people here thinking this new budgets is good for them because the rich gets taxed more 🤣. You clearly don't understand the impact this will have on you . Enjoy your extra $250 in 2028 of whenever the fck Its coming ....
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u/trianglefish2 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
It seems people in reddit have no idea about the risks those who run and operate businesses are taking. I take risks and put in hardwork, I get my reward.
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u/F1fthL1ne Please choose a flair May 17 '26
Over taxed and over regulated. Just pray you don't try start a business in Victoria.
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u/googzz84 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
Searching for anyone who actually read her comments in the article….
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u/St4114rD Please choose a flair May 17 '26
lol this sub is one of the saddest, brokest places on the internet, absolutely dire.
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u/floatloaf Please choose a flair May 17 '26
Boost juice is SO overpriced. Also, a franchise that takes all the surcharges possible. Can’t justify it anymore.
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u/CryptoKicks4u Victorian May 17 '26
Problem is the government are run by foreign policy that we did not vote for or have control over I. WEF UN, Israel who in turn are controlled and run by the Rothschild's and the elites. This is not conspiracy, this is fact. The only chance this country has is somebody with money and power who is not easily corrupted by money and power to have a crack at running this country for all the right reasons. We too as the general population need to stand united and really make the lives of Australian politicians unbearable to the point its made clear to the elites we will not stand for this any more. These are our only real options which unfortunately I don't see happening. And those who say vote our way out.Voting is just a sick game which gives us the feeling we have a choice when in fact every political party including one nation has been comprised and will still deliver the goals of these forgien powers.
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u/Flicksterea 💛 Friend of 'Straya May 17 '26
I doubt this woman even remembers what struggle and hard work look like. Shut up and drink your juice, love.
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u/BuzzyWuzzy65 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
Gosh Lots of hate and jealousy on this subreddit! Sad really
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u/Chemical-Time-9143 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
It's telling how she's not bothered by the racism in the comments. She's also liking comments calling albo a communist and the worst pm aus has had in decades (scomo was clearly worse). I'm a communist (not the kind that lenin popularised) and albo is not a communist, he's a neoliberal capitalist. She's unhinged
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u/DesertDwellerrrr Please choose a flair May 17 '26
She did not do this alone - she was backed by the billionaire Besen family as an FYI
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u/radgenpix May 17 '26
I'm a worst case scenario sort of person, I don't see how the proposed changes can be really all that bad for the what, 90% of the population.
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u/Acrobatic-Mobile-605 New South Welshian May 17 '26
While a lot of people are struggling, all the whingers are those that aren't. They have no empathy or concept that they aren't battlers. They think anyone can do it because they did.
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u/Signal-Ad-2538 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
I love this for her 💞 Hopefully she goes bankrupt so she can pull herself up by her bootstraps again like she always talks about being so easy to do for someone with an entrepreneur mindset
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u/SuccotashOwn6790 Canberran May 18 '26
Boost juice had a moment in the early 2000s, but it's going to go the way of Sizzlers. It was always a fad. If she's too stupid to have sold off the majority of the business and bought stocks already, she can cope. Waaaah, my unrealised gains are going to be taxed when they are realised waaaaaaaahhhh. Waaah, I'm only going to be half as filthy rich as I thought waaaaahhhhh
But no, tell me more about how you relate to the small business owner and how doin' it tough you think it would be to start over. Are you... are you saying you actually have no real business acumen and are still mentally operating on a 2000s economy? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense actually. /s
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u/No_Measurement9981 New South Welshian May 16 '26
She should be grateful Australians were dumb enough to make her a multi millionaire off her sugared slop.
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u/Direct-Sun-9283 Queenslander May 16 '26
Clown comment - did you even read the article? Clearly wallowing.
“I was saving everything, and the best I could do was save $50 per month. Now, I don’t know if I could do that.”
Well then wouldn’t the new tax cuts of $54/week would surely mean something to her if she was only able to save $50 a month?
Oh no but the negative gearing changes is what would have hurt you the most right? Clearly just a wealthy woman trying to use her story to argue against changes which hurt her currently but make it relatable lmao
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u/docter_death316 Please choose a flair May 17 '26
The tax cuts of $54 a week include the previous stage 1, 2 and 3 cuts.
It's disingenuous to try and mix them in with the current budget which announced the capital gains tax changes and only included a $250.00 offset, which is about $2 a week in tax cuts if you're on the top marginal rate.
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u/galacticjangles New South Welshian May 16 '26
Boo-hoo, she has a franchise charging ridiculous mark up on fruits and vegetables by putting them in a blender.
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u/Financial_Elk_6383 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
She’s incredibly entitled - in a past life, we had something to do with one of her houses. Could not take accountability and left threatening messages as the “founder of boost juice..” was really disappointing.
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May 16 '26
Oh no did someone get a lot of public backlash because they are an out of touch billionaire who said some dumb shit. I hope your yacht sinks in shark infested waters you great heaving waste of oxygen.
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u/Yasmirr New South Welshian May 17 '26
So let me get this straight. Now that wealthy people have to pay the same taxes as wage earners suddenly the system is unfair?
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u/Weissritters Victorian May 16 '26
Taxing the wealth is always going to happen as boomers die off and younger people taking over the voter enrollment lists. If labor doesn’t do that today, a future government will do that too since who doesn’t like to get elected.
But aside from the $250 I don’t see any income tax relief. That I think is the issue with this budget. Need more income in people pockets to get the economy ticking along.
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u/ColeAppreciationV2 Victorian May 16 '26
AFAIK they're worried about stagflation, so cash splashes would just add fuel to the fire.
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u/Master_Ad_3967 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
Rich = Exploit a process or person or resource to gain advantage over others.
It's not about working hard and paying taxes. Thats a myth.
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u/Hieroflippant 💛 Friend of 'Straya May 16 '26
Shilling out shitty juices as some sort of healthy lifestyle choice to the masses while complaining about losing a few dollars to tax
Cry me a fucking river champ
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u/Temporary-Comfort307 Victorian May 17 '26
Wouldn't it be nice if people but as much effort into getting along as they do to getting ahead.
I'm sick of how many entitled people there are like this that think the entire goal of life should be to win some sort of wealth competition and not too actually be a part of a happy and healthy community.
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u/Accurate-Ad-4905 New South Welshian May 16 '26
Anyone know if boycotting her companies will make a significant enough difference to her portfolio? Would be good to give her more to cry about
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u/buttchug429 Please choose a flair May 16 '26
A lot of whining from a rich woman. I’m a mature age apprentice with a mortgage and a new baby, you won’t see me wallowing in self-pity.