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Ross Gittins’ column today is a barely con­tained swipe at Saul Eslake’s call for tax reform

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christ­mas movie full (which incid­ent­ally appeared right under­neath his Sat­urday spiel in the dead tree edi­tion.

He’s jus­ti­fi­ably annoyed that all busi­nesses ever seem to talk about is tax (and the self-serving push to have them reduced and/or sim­pli­fied). But an eco­nomic journ­al­ist of his stand­ing should be well aware of the effi­ciency and dead-weight loss argu­ments in favour of sim­pli­fic­a­tion (which he dis­misses out of hand).

Per­haps a more dip­lo­matic way of argu­ment would be to say that the vari­ous levels of gov­ern­ment and bur­eau­cracy in Aus­tralia should be more than cap­able of hand­ling all the weighty issues sim­ul­tan­eously. Yes, invest­ments in water, health, edu­ca­tion and eco­nomic reform are all import­ant, and they can all be given weighty consideration.

Still, there’s noth­ing like see­ing Gittins in full flight. Check out some of these pearlers:

• Séance film

  Under­world

  Dead Man’s Cards psp