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2016-04-25 16:18:07
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Australian intellectuals say there should be more taxes
>An open letter – co-signed by 50 progressive advocates, union leaders and academics – identifies capital gains and superannuation accounts as ripe targets for revenue-raising, and came as opposition treasury spokesman Chris Bowen explicitly ruled out cutting company tax in the May budget.
>Signatories to the letter – published as a full-page ad in The Sydney Morning Herald by the Australia Institute, a progressive think tank – included ACTU president Ged Kearney, feminist author Eva Cox, former federal Labor minister and premier Carmen Lawrence and Hawke-Keating-era central banker and former Climate Change Authority chief Bernie Fraser.
>Others signatories enjoyed a Greens political pedigree including Australia Institute executive director Ben Oquist, a former adviser to Bob Brown, and former Greens candidate and GetUp chief Simon Sheikh.
>Public intellectuals to sign on included Nobel laureate immunologist Peter Doherty, La Trobe University political analyst Robert Manne, and Sydney University public health expert Simon Chapman.
>“Data from the OECD, IMF and World Bank make clear that Australia is a low taxing country. To have world class health, education and transport services we need to collect the revenue to fund them,” it read.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/more-tax-more-equitably-leftwing-intellectuals-cry-in-open-letter/news-story/afdb6a27ffff5b91faf23d5e19577f4d
