Archive for February, 2011

Delighted. And red-faced with anger

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

If anyone needed evidence that we live in a plutonomy, here it is. Australian citizens would be rioting in the street if they understood this conspiracy.

A Grounded Tax System for Australia

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

photo credit: Timmy Toucan You are cordially invited to an interactive seminar: A Grounded Tax System for Australia Thursday 24 February 2011, 7.00 pm Presenter David Collyer Why work for wages when tax takes the cream? Why risk a business when government sucks your blood? How rentiers make our lives a misery. There is a [...]

Property: Bigger Boom Coming

Monday, February 7th, 2011

photo credit: zachstern Thurs March 3rd 6.30 – 8.30pm Presenter: Phil Anderson 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melb Phil’s last talk before heading to the northern hemisphere. The biggest boom is still ahead of us. Phil Anderson will outline the history of the American 18-year real estate cycle, and why this is so important to Australian property [...]

Acres of Wealth

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

photo credit: HikingArtist.com Letter to the Editor Gavin Putland, LVRG, Melbourne 02/02/2011 THE value of land embraced by the latest extension of the urban growth boundary has jumped from $25,000 to $375,000 a hectare, raising the land tax bill for the average 40-hectare lot from $2975 a year to $294,975 a year (The Age, 1/2). [...]

Liberate labor and enterprise

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

The reform challenge for our beloved country is to discard the taxes that weigh on effort and creativity, and to put them instead on economic rents, like land and mining.