更糟糕的是,无论他们承诺多少,自由主义者总是声称他们的税款将低于劳动力,而不会对他们对“基本服务”的支出产生任何影响。 (Perhaps this boils down to a promise not to rely on bracket creep – the “secret tax of inflation” – quite as much as Labor does.)
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What the pollies never tell us is that, if you want it, it will cost you.但是一个的女人是 告诉我们政客不是什么是Grattan Institute的老板Aruna Sathanapally。在一年前的一次演讲中,她告诉了鲜为人知的真理:我们的政府“没有为我们花费的钱增加足够的收入。
“这留下了结构性的差距,” Sathanapally说。 “您可以通过减少支出,增加收入以及增长经济来解决结构性问题。像其他发达经济体一样,澳大利亚预计在未来40年中的经济增长速度要比过去40年中的速度较慢。即使生产率的增长超出了预期,仍然不太可能缩小结构性差距。负担为财富提供了实质性的让步。住房和养老金的财富得到了特别慷慨的待遇。 They cost the budget almost $45 billion a year and are projected to cost more than the age pension by 2036. These tax breaks predominantly benefit the top 20 per cent of income earners, so they do little to actually reduce age pension spending.
“Meanwhile the combination of capital gains tax breaks and negative gearing encourages speculation in the housing market in place of other more productive uses of funds,” she说。
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