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Wasn’t this guy sup­posed to be a ‘con­vic­tion politi­cian’? Someone who advoc­ates policy because it’s right and not because it’s pop­u­lar? This is the equi­val­ent of wrap­ping duct tape around shards of glass.

Cut­ting taxes, and reform­ing the tax sys­tem are entirely com­ple­ment­ary policy object­ives. The most meas­ur­able dead-weight loss of taxes is not so much the amount that is taken away by the gov­ern­ment. This is already factored in to people’s decisions, as they falsely believe the money is not theirs. Rather it is the time and effort taken to com­ply with 6000+ pages of tax codes. An entire industry of humour­less number-crunchers (expens­ive humour­less number-crunchers) has risen to assist people with this over-regulation. Only the rich are able to afford work­ing out how to min­im­ise their ATO cheques. Seems to me like a back-door way of mak­ing the tax-scales less progressive.

A great purge Diary of a Serial Killer film of the sys­tem isn’t going to hap­pen until this big-spending bolshie is voted out of office.