02 May, 2018 Per Capita fantasy budget
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by Emma Dawson
We released our own fantasy budget that called for a number of more progressive measures and ended up cost-neutral (if you can’t get behind the paywall, it’s reproduced here in full).
How did we stack up against the real thing?
We called for:
- more progressive income tax scales
- raising the rate of Newstart by $50 per week
- trialling a job guarantee scheme
- limiting negative gearing
- increasing education funding
- introducing a carbon tax and divided system
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The treasurer:
- radically flattened the tax scales
- refuses to consider raising Newstart and plans to raise additional money from welfare recipients by extending data matching activities and increasing the time migrants must wait for welfare benefits
- made no mention of climate change or renewable energy policy
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