Economic justice, not Left and Right
Cross-posted from The New Daily
Matt Ellis, 34, a Melbourne software engineer, is pleading with his fellow Australians to oppose the government’s idea of allowing home buyers to tap into their superannuation.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is actively considering the … Read more “Regular Aussie bloke fights back against ‘dangerous’ superannuation idea”
By Bryan Kavanagh, cross-posted from Online Opinion, March 29th 2016
The Australian Federal Treasury publication “Architecture of Australia’s tax and transfer system” (August 2008) made a valid observation:
… Read more “The origin of financial collapse: Land speculation and untaxed economic rent”While there are at least a hundred taxes, they all ultimately
Well either I’ve woken up in a parallel universe (no doubt related to the recent proof of the existence of gravitational waves), or the most blindingly obvious imbalances in our tax system have suddenly become imperatives for tax reform for … Read more “Tax reform Twilight Zone: Negative Gearing shock-horror!”
Cross-posted from Prosper.org.au, by Karl Fitzgerald, February 6th 2016
The Property Council of Australia’s shameless threat to both sides of politics to look the other way on negative gearing reform is a slap in the face to the democratic … Read more “The Verve of Vested Interests”
A week is a long time in mainstream economic “analysis”. If the recent release of the final report from the Financial System Inquiry (the Murray inquiry) has not made you sit up and take … Read more “It’s official: housing speculation is bad for everyone in the long run”