On plumbers migrating to Australia to collect $100,000 salary

Recently, an anonymous poster claiming to have graduated from ITE was bragging online about making around $100,000 a year. This post attracted a lot of followers and haters. The haters tried to debunk the poster and reviewed the post for any inconsistencies. One argument of this faction was that after paying income and consumption taxes, the numbers would not be as favorable as they seemed. Another argument was that this poster was lying. The weakness of this argument is that no matter how you play with the numbers, an income of $100,000 after tax in Australia would still be more favorable than the salary of a local ITE graduate. Supporters generally use this publication as an opportunity to discredit the government, implying that there are societies that respect the labor trade and that ITE graduates are better off migrating there. For me, the supporters are not sincere. They do not consider some benefits of…