If the economics of broadening or lifting Australia’s GST are challenging, the politics are horrendous
by Patrick Commins from World news | The Guardian on (#6YXJ7)
Labor is fundamentally opposed to changing the tax on consumption on the basis it hurts poorer Australians. And the worry about fairness is real
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When Jim Chalmers saidwe needed a national debate on reforming the economy to drive the next generation of prosperity, he scolded the media for its penchant for playing the rule-in-rule-out game.
The irony is that from his high horse, the treasurer had almost certainly ruled out one big change: lifting or broadening the GST.
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