Prosper Australia

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

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.