Thursday, 5 November 2015

GST increase will hit poor hardest - modelling

New modelling has shown what we at the bottom already know; that any increase will dis-proportionally slug us as compared to the well off.

It's interesting to know also that all states must agree to an increase, along with the senate crossbenchers with Labor opposing it. It would be a very unpopular move indeed by any state gov to agree with the federal Lieberals to clobber the poor and slug everyone with a great big tax increase. As federal Labor opposes an increase I can't see the state Labor Victorian and Queensland gov's supporting it.

I was of course dead against the GST right from the start. It took that bloody Howard and his political capacity to get it through.



 

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