Addicts sucking on the government teatFrom baby bonuses to first home buyers, it seems we’re just standing with our hands out waiting for the government to support us, and they continuously do. Why did we get so lazy?
Baby Bonus
Taxing at double time to pay for Abbott’s baby bonus
Millions of Australians will lose from Tony Abbott’s idea of taxing profitable companies to pay for his exaggerated version of the baby bonus — mostly shareholders, which includes nearly every one of the more than 10-plus million working people in this country.
Paid parental leave, check. Now what about carers?
For the first time the government is prepared to acknowledge a clear unequivocal financial relationship between the workplace and parenting, writes Eva Cox.
Budget countdown: incomes between a tax cut and a hard place
Australia has an unfair, warped and immensely costly approach to incomes policy and the coming budget is the ideal time to start the long process of fixing it.
Slashing middle class welfare will hurt women
Here we go again — the ‘middle class welfare’ pink flag is raised to justify cutting payments which essentially go to women, writes Eva Cox.
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The budget, alcopops and Brendan Nelson … judicial independence … the US and isolationism … baby bonus … Israel …
Eva Cox: How the Budget demonises rich women
The two minor income tests to Family Tax Benefit B and the Baby Bonus have been puffed and discussed as though the recipient were Cruella de Ville, writes Eva Cox.
Family tax benefits still a mass of contradictions
Tinkering around the edges of the existing layer cake system of family benefits will not fix the problem of middle class welfare, writes Jessica Brown of the CIS.
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Budget08 - where’s the environment?, professional women and the baby bonus, working families, Gen Y … the Democrats and Al Gore … Westpac …
Give the Baby Bonus to teachers instead?
There are approximately a quarter of a million babies born in Australia each year, and approximately a quarter of a million teachers. Is there something we can do with this? wonders Andrew Leigh.
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The Fed’s bail out of Bear Stearns … organ donation … Israel … MacDonalds at hospital … Rudd and China … baby bonus … The Australian:
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Israel and Antony Loewenstein … the Haneef inquiry … the baby bonus … organ donation … McDonalds in hospitals … Kyoto …
Time for a baby bonus rebirthing
At its best, the baby bonus was just a vote buying exercise and a failed one at that, writes Joshua Gans.
$834: how baby bonus adds up to baby boom
Whatever the benefits (if any) of a baby bonus is, like any economic policy, governments need to worry about implementation. People have choices and respond to incentives. What we don’t want is a normal, stable and predictable medical environment being disrupted by arbitrary incentives, writes Joshua Gans.
Historically Hung Over: The Crikey Guide To The 2010 Federal Election
