Archive for 'Wealth tax'
Let’s have a great big new tax – on the rich
Posted by John, April 28th, 2014 - under Manufactured crisis, Superannuation, Tax policy, Tax reform, Tax the rich, Wealth tax.
Tags: Abbott government, Budget, Budget black hole, Budget cuts, Budget surplus
Comments: 4
Let’s be clear here. Australia’s budget deficit is around ten percent of GDP, a very modest amount compared to other developed countries, and half of it a consequence of Abbott government decisions. Australia is a low tax and a low spending country. If we moved to the average tax rate of OECD countries we’d raise about an extra $100 billion a year. It is time not just to chant tax the rich but to mobilise around it as part of a wider push for socially progressive policies on jobs, the environment, indigenous Australians, asylum seekers, gays and lesbians, public health, public education, public transport, disability, pensions, child care and the like.
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Why won’t Labor tax the rich?
Posted by John, August 16th, 2009 - under Inheritance tax, Wayne Swann, Wealth tax.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Capital gains, capital gains tax, Carbon tax, Classes, Climate change, Henry tax review, Housing
Comments: 2
Soak the rich till their pips squeak. Labor won’t tax the rich because it believes in the primacy of profit and the lie of the trickle down theory – what’s good for the rich is supposedly good for the rest of us.
Health care: reform or revolution?
Posted by Leonie, July 28th, 2009 - under Inheritance tax, Kevin Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Wealth tax.
Tags: Australian politics, Health care, Health reform
Comments: 1
Neo-liberalism, not need, drives health care reform. Let’s tax the rich to pay for universal health care as part of a move to a just and equitable society.