I just came accros the following statement by the Carbon Sense : The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Australian federal government and the opposition to abolish all renewable energy targets, certificates and subsidies. The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that it was time for those who worship wind turbines to pay their full cost, and not force other electricity consumers and tax payers to pay for a costly, unreliable and [...]
I havn’t seen any reporting on this as of yet, but I was struck by a line uttered in Wayne Swan’s Budget Speech yesterday: From 1 July 2014 the Medicare levy will increase by ½ a percentage point. The money raised will be placed in a special Fund for 10 years and only used for the additional costs of DisabilityCare Australia. The Australian Constitution states: 81. All revenues or moneys raised or received by the Executive Government [...]
With the release of the Federal Budget, marginal tax rates changed for Australians. But not in the way the media would report. Our Deputy Director, Queensland economist John Humphreys, has crunched the numbers and the results are surprising: Once you start factoring in the Low Income Earner Tax Offset, the result shows that in two places our marginal tax rates are regressive. This means is that people with lower incomes pay a higher marginal tax rate. In fact, the [...]
The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a non-partisan grassroots advocacy body representing the interests of Australian taxpayers, today condemned the 2013 Federal Budget for failing to make the tough decisions needed to restart our economy and give relief to struggling Australians. “Wayne Swan has taken the coward’s way out said Tim Andrews, Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance. “He has failed to make the tough decisions we desperately need to cut waste, cut overspending, and get [...]
Earlier this morning, Wayne Swan revealed his “$100bn nation building plan” in the budget. We wondered where he got the idea from… and here it is!
Taxpayers Call For A Fair Go Budget Tim Andrews, Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, will be available for in-person interviews & budget-related analysis in Canberra this week The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a non-partisan grassroots advocacy body representing the interests of Australian taxpayers, today called for the Federal Government to make the tough decisions necessary to slash spending and revitalise the Australian economy in the 2013 Federal Budget. “Wayne Swan does not have a [...]
Tomorrow’s budget will announce an increase in Foreign Aid by $500 million dollars to $5.7 billion. This has been attacked by the Federal Coalition. You would think the reason for this would be that our foreign aid money is generally wasted on projects like teaching Australian Rules Football , much of it gets funnelled to domestic left wing activist groups, some of it ends up in the hands of terrorists and the evidence is clear that it actually hurts [...]
Will Dallas Brooks has an interesting article in Quadrant Online: In 2006, as part of my work in clinical and hospital reform, I prepared a cost benefit analysis of medical services provided by public hospitals in New South Wales. In 2005, there were some 35 million clinical occasions of service provided by the over 360 hospitals, allied health, paramedical health networks and mental health facilities servicing the NSW population. The total cost to the State of delivering [...]
Media Release NATIONAL CAMPAIGN: TELL TONY TO DUMP PAID PARENTAL LEAVE The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a 25,000 member strong nonpartisan grassroots activist group dedicated to fighting tax, regulation and waste, today announced a new campaign calling on Tony Abbott to dump his paid-parental leave scheme as Liberal backbencher Alex Hawke MP, Member for Mitchell, released an article in the IPA Review Magazine calling for the Coalition to abandon this policy. “Australia simply can’t afford another [...]
CLICK HERE to take action! Tony Abbott MUST dump his far-left paid parental leave welfare scheme! This policy - which would pay women earning up to $150,000 a year their full salary for six months - will cost a staggering $3 billion a year that Australia just can’t afford. To make matters worse, it will be funded by an increase in the corporate tax.Australia’s corporate tax is already one of the highest in the world. That’s why businesses are [...]
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just announced ANOTHER tax slug to bailout her government and pay for her wasteful spending. Supporting the disabled is a key responsibility of governments – but the NDIS must be funded by cuts in overspending, and not another grubby tax hike. We have just announced a new campaign to fight this grubby tax hike. Click HERE to contact your MP TODAY and say: Australia simply can’t afford another hike in taxes. Since coming to power in 2007, [...]
The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance & MyChoice Australia today welcomed news that the British government has unceremoniously dumped all proposed tobacco plain packaging legislation. The Sun newspaper today reported that British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered plain packaging to be pulled from next week’s Queen’s Speech, with a Whitehall source saying plain packaging has “nothing to do with the government’s key purpose”. Over half a million British residents wrote to the government saying they objected [...]
Media Release Don’t Disable Australia: Say No To The Bailout-Julia Levy! The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a 25,000 member strong nonpartisan grassroots activist group dedicated to fighting tax, regulation and waste, today announced their strong opposition to plans to increase the Medicare Levy by 33% to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme. “Australia simply can’t afford another hike in taxes” said Tim Andrews, Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance. “Supporting the disabled is a [...]
Sinclair Davidson at Catallaxy Files is spot on: Only mean-spirited people would begrudge paying more tax to support the disabled. Right? Well that’s the story the Prime Minister’s Press Office is pushing on Twitter. Wrong. This is a classic case of fiscal illusion. The first thing to remember is that the Commonwealth cannot earmark money for specific purposes. Section 81 of the Constitution reads: All revenues or moneys raised or received by the Executive Government of the Commonwealth shall [...]
As we mentioned yesterday, tax hikes are the worst possible thing a government could do to an economy right now. Yet, because of the Federal Government’s gross overspending in boom-times, rather than making the tough decisions to cut expenditure, instead, they are looking to squeeze even more tax out of as workers and already-struggling businesses – businesses that are already closing in record numbers. News.com.au reports that the following tax hikes are on the agenda: [...]
