Somewhere in all of this hype and hyperventilation has to be a fair tax scheme, you know the one no pollie has had the intelligence or guts to propose!?

We have ultra complex proposals to widen the GST, roll back tax breaks on super super? You know the one which allows the wealthiest on a top marginal tax of allegedly, 45 cents in the dollar, to effectively pay just 15 cents in the dollar!

All while ordinary mums and dads are unfairly paying around 30 cents in the dollar and are teetering on the brink of bracket creep which will force them to pay more tax!

And thus keep the most complex tax system in the world alive and well with more holes than swiss cheese, and created just so the ones with the largest pockets could escape the tax liabilities.

Thus we have a levy here an impost the and a charge there. And due to this very complex set of arrangements, a considerable sum of unreconciled money needs to languish in government coffers unable to be made available to consolidated revenue due to a tax system designed to create income for folks who do no actual productive work?

Which any way you look at it is a waste of considerable talent!

We just need a single stand alone and unavoidable expenditure tax that every boy and his dog pays to get a truly fair system; and having done that, jettison all the others inclusive of the GST and fuel excise both of which are among the most regressive anti business taxes ever invented.

We talk about small government but create ever larger fiefdoms of personal empires in the form of an the army of bureaucrats paid to police them.

But you can't dump the current system and start over some will say, citing endless obfuscation and lame brain excuses.

I say that's exactly what needs to happen and if that ends avoidance and bracket creep a the first consequence! That's all to te good!
Rhrosty.

We need to change the health system so that it creates outcomes rather than simply line the pockets of some very wealthy service providers, and further reform it by opting for much more regional autonomy and regional boards.

This would allow some control to be placed on some of the spending and eliminate things like golden staph;I believe. a symptom of a health system in crisis, or if you like indicative of too many chiefs and not enough indians.

WE need an old fashioned matron ready, willing and able to instruct some lackadaisical doctors and other university trained staff, that a surgical mask must cover the nose as well as the mouth! A sneeze exits the nose at 104 miles PH, and can and does travel up to 10 metres!

Some say if we adopted some of these recommended reforms we could halve the health budget and fully fund the NDIS?

Public education is another area that needs to be reformed to save considerable finite funds, that someone somewhere has to pay!

Total regional autonomy, and apples for apples comparisons to arrive at best practise outcomes, would be a good place to start. If only to break the back of union control that for a start forces the system to keep dullards that are contributing to the shocking numeracy and reading illiteracy outcomes.

You only need hear the way some folks incorrectly pronounce words like pronunciation and contribution to know we should never ever have abandoned the phonic system!

Real reform in this area could save the budget bottom line a much as 30%. which could then be redirected at current unmet need!

State parliaments cost the taxpay some 70 billions plus per, all up before so much as a single service is rolled out.

Pretty expensive double dipping that produces no discernable outcome save a veritable plethora of bloated belly pollies and their armies of public servants, wouldn't you say? Sing awah Davey!
Rhrosty.

Politicians should be doing their level best to reduce taxes, not increase them. They must stop spending on all but essential items, keep their hooks out of things much better done by the private sector, and thin out their own ranks - there are far to many of them. PM's should be prevented from committing stupid acts like Turnbull did yesterday - slinging $300 million at a inept organisation because a moronic young individual killed himself with illicit drugs at a looney rock concert. Who cares about these idiots, apart from their families, of course. It's not up to taxpayers to pay for the stupidity of individuals who are clearly of no use to society whatever.

ttbn, whatever Turnbull did yesterday, it's better than sssuming individuals to be "clearly of no use to society whatever".

As for Senator Leyonhjelm's singing stunt, I'm not surprised the journos didn't take much notice of his lyrics. Even for the minority of Aussies who share his intrinsic opposition to taxes, opposing the closure of tax loopholes really doesn't make sense.

@Aidan

"...opposing the closure of tax loopholes really doesn't make sense."

I would be grateful if you could expand upon that idea.

Thanks.