Indy, you say "Introduce a 15 % Flat tax for wage earners". What a nonsense idea. A wager earner with a taxable income of $38,000 presently pays $3900 in tax, under your flat 15% tax that would increase by $1800 to $5700. Where as a wage earner on a taxable income of $380000 pays $144,000, with your flat tax of 15% that would reduce by $87000 down to $57000. REMARKABLE. Penalise the low paid, that's your motto Indy. Share the pain for a change Indy, bet you wont be in that!

Using your bench mark, would you agree the Aged Welfare payment for a single person at $24550 should also reduce by 15%, $3700 to $20850.

Who refereed to the Aged Pension as WELFARE, none other than the Treasurer himself, in a speech to parliament Josh Friedbrain said, Welfare dependence in Australia, excluding aged pensioners, was the lowest in 30 years. Obviously the Treasurer sees the Aged Pension as WELFARE! BTW does your 15% flat income tax include the 7.5% pension payment.

I would have paid far more income tax over the past 50 year than you Indy, in those low paid menial jobs of yours. So whose getting the WELFARE.... YOU not ME!

Some interesting points !
https://www.tr.news/worst-coronavirus-video/

I just saw Scott Morrison on TV saying how dismayed he is to hear that the WHO has just given China the all clear to reopen their wet markets. I totally sympathise with him on this one.

But what next? I suppose all those ex-pat Chinese in Australia will start lobbying to have wet markets in Australia. Of course what a good idea, we can start growing our own Wuhan virus locally instead of bringing it in from China.

Don't you just love the Chinese?

Indy avoids responding to the above post, as to why a person on a minimum wage has to pay more income tax, and the top 1% of earners get a huge tax cut, sorry not the aged welfare mob like Indy, pain is for others.

What about this Indy Party policy; "Reduce senior Public Service Bureaucrat salaries by 25-30% starting @ 200,000/year"

Indy would reduce Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy and his Deputy Paul Kelly salaries by 25-30%. While keeping his own government largesse untouched. Can others see the Indy picture, kick others in the arse, but keep his personal undeserved access to the govvy teat untouched.

Here's my idea, value for money for the taxpayer, whatever welfare Indy is getting multiply it by 1,000,000% and that's what we'll pay Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly. Then reduce Indy's and others like him, their welfare to 20 bucks a fortnight and boot them into a 'Seniors National Service' where they can dig weeds on the side of the road with the shiny new hoe's we give them, complements of our pensioner aid program.

Paul1405,
Seeing that you're simply not astute enough I'll say AGAIN what I have said countless tiomes on OLO by now.
In order to get some normalcy towards a level playing field we need to bring excessive salaries down rather than raise basic wages ! It's the ONLY way to get back into competitiveness in manufacturing & possible resurgence of exporting Australian made goods !
Leave the minimum wage where it is !
Making stupidly opportunistic swipes at every turn is not a way forward Paul1405, it doesn't get you anywhere ! Why not try not being a git !

Indy, how about disputing what I've put up, re your 15% flat income tax. Answer that one? At minimum wage your tax goes UP at ten times the minimum wage your tax goes DOWN! As one would say PLEASE EXPLAIN!
You have these ideas, you put them up, how about an explanation. Now whose the git?