“Australians can look forward to more tax cuts next year after John
Howard declared tax relief to be ‘the most important thing’ for average
workers,” reported Phillip Hudson in The Sunday Age.
But the PM
“rejected the push for the surplus to fund an overhaul of the tax system to
eliminate tax breaks, saying ‘one man’s tax reform is another person’s tax
poison.'” That is, we can
not
look forward to tax reform, meaning tax relief.
Alan
Kohler noted in Saturday’s Smage: “Nerve needed to
fix tax idiocies.”
This is a very
important article, and we plead with the mandarins and pollies to read it and
respond. If they do not realise that the mood has changed completely on this
issue, there may well be a change of government, since Labor does seem to get
the point.
Read on at Henry
Thornton here.
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