This budget has effectively been written by the Labor and minor parties by restricting what measures they will allow through the senate, while they blame the government for the resulting deficits.
Topic: News
What’s so bad about inequity?
Hey Bill, what about a royal commission into rating agencies? Aren’t they the capitalist bastards threatening to downgrade the Australian government because it pays for programs, pensions and public servants with money borrowed from foreigners?
A quick refresher course in how to create jobs
This entrenched idea that governments create new jobs by stimulating demand using taxpayer funds is flawed.
Report released on Australian attitudes to taxation
Most significantly 56% said they were prepared to pay higher tax. While Greens (75%) were the most generous, even 46% of Liberal voters said they were prepared to pay more.
Time ripe to raise taxes…unfortunately
There is a good argument to keep taxes as low as possible. It’s an argument that is losing ground in modern Australia.
Kohler’s mistakes underline why negative gearing is threatened
One of our best economic commentators makes fundamental errors about negative gearing, the ABCC and housing prices.
Turnbull held aloft by projection and likeability
Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity seems a lot like Kevin Rudd’s on the basis of our polling. So will it disappear just as quickly and catastrophically for his own party?
Going all green or gay is no way to run a bank
Most banks in Australia have entered the postmodern world of politics, entangling themselves in matters that, if not detrimental to their ability to create wealth, embroil their leaders in contestable public policy.
Shorten in policy disarray on housing affordability and negative gearing
This morning Bill Shorten admitted on ABC Radio’s AM program that Labor’s negative gearing policy would not achieve its headline goal as a “Positive Plan to Help Housing Affordability”.
ALP would make Australia the second most expensive OECD country for Capital Gains Tax
Such "low tax" countries as Germany, France, Italy and even New Zealand tax capital gains at 0%, but Labor would tax at a level second only to Denmark.
