Nostalgia is a fine political tool if you can use it and half his luck if Abbott can make it work for him. But it’s no basis for an economic policy.
Tax cuts
Cox: fairness agenda takes a back seat at tax forum
This was the tax forum where the fairness agenda was lost, at least from the government side.
Welfare: government fails its social democracy obligations
This is not a Labor government budget in any serious sense. It does not take from the rich, except in very minor ways, and its redistributive tendencies are almost reversed.
Will Obama backflip on tax cuts for the wealthy?
Wary Democrats are publicly airing concerns that Barack Obama will renege on one of his key priorities and compromise on tax cuts for the wealthy, in an attempt to harden the President’s resolve, writes Arthur Delaney.
Listen to the market, not the stars of the cringe festival
Bring a group of rich businessmen, all mates of Forbes magazine and owner Steve Forbes, and plunk them down in Australia and watch the local media slather over their every utterance.
Social welfare: Disadvantaged take a back seat to boy stuff
Those who gained and lost last night illustrate the lack of concern this government really has for their version of “working families”.
No argument for dumping Rudd’s tax cuts
In the absence of a compelling case for ditching them, the Government is right to keep the tax cuts.
Political snippets: Budget winners and losers
The media can’t decide whether tax cuts will or won’t survive the Federal Budget.
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.
The ugliest Budget in decades way behind schedule
The Budget process is significantly behind schedule, according to sources in the Canberra bureaucracy, delayed by the continuing collapse in revenue projections and the need to find all possible savings, writes Bernard Keane.
Stimulus needed: Tax cuts get personal
A group of leading economists give their take on whether personal or business tax cuts are the best way to stimulate spending.
Rudd’s stimulus package divides the pack
We’re in the middle of the most perverse economic debate in years, writes Bernard Keane.
Economists tell: How I would trim the tax tree
Crikey asked five leading Australian economist how they would reform Australia’s tax system. Interviews by Thomas Hunter.
Mungo: What a difference a month makes
The smugness of the Howard years came at a price, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The more readily Murdoched portions of the daily press are gunning hard for the Rudd Government over leaks that put sensitive examples of Howard Government largesse under stern razor gang scrutiny. Take money away from pensioners? Shameful. From carers? Disgusting. Or mealy mouthed as Malcolm Turnbull puts it. The Government should just pledge to renew the late term gifts of […]
