Labor’s tax policy is “me too, but …” according to Peter Costello. And running the rule over the respective major parties tax reform packages does reveal more than a few similarities.
Tax free threshold
Tax cut pledge prove a bigger surplus isn’t better
John Howard and his Treasurer, Peter Costello, have begun the election campaign with an incredible admission – that bigger isn’t always better when it comes to a surplus, writes Christian Kerr.
Andrew Murray: What to do with the surplus?
From a forecasting perspective it is a poor show when a Government gets the surplus so badly wrong just three months after the budget, but they are serial offendors on this front, so none of us are surprised, writes Senator Andrew Murray.
$17billion of our money, p-ssed up against the wall
One question the media are unlikely to ask about Peter Costello’s revelation of a $17.3b surplus for 2006-07 is what right does a government have to rip that much money out of taxpayers with nothing to show for it?
