The ‘deficit levy’ is just a new tax by another name | The Australian
And how could the Prime Minister claim the fiscal emergency
was so dire it required a sudden, damaging hike in income tax for
so-called higher income earners when his own bureaucracy is teeming with
thousands of paper-shuffling staff earning upwards of $250,000, while
hundreds of federal government quangos, such as the $25 million Human
Rights Commission, sap wealth and give taxpayers practically nothing in
return. Superfluous public service jobs should suffer before the
genuinely productive workers are taxed further. The commonwealth
Department of Education, for instance, which manages no schools or
universities, still has more than 3500 staff.
And how could the Prime Minister claim the fiscal emergency
was so dire it required a sudden, damaging hike in income tax for
so-called higher income earners when his own bureaucracy is teeming with
thousands of paper-shuffling staff earning upwards of $250,000, while
hundreds of federal government quangos, such as the $25 million Human
Rights Commission, sap wealth and give taxpayers practically nothing in
return. Superfluous public service jobs should suffer before the
genuinely productive workers are taxed further. The commonwealth
Department of Education, for instance, which manages no schools or
universities, still has more than 3500 staff.
