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Cost-Shifting Stamp Duty – Onto You
If taxpayers are to endure the upset of tax reform, then the change should be to best practice – the tax bases economists have identified as causing the least harm.
An unfair advantage
Letters to the Editor The Age 25/08/2014 The seemingly inevitable slide towards the haves and the have-nots in home ownership is inevitable if nothing changes. Our approach to funding the needs of the state encourages and disproportionately rewards speculative...
Petition for Genuine Housing Reform
A Petition by Rational Radical Hi, my name is Matt, and I'm one of many young Australians currently locked out of home ownership by record high prices. My friends know me as very vocal and frequently angry about housing affordability issues. Well the latest...
Introductory Remarks to the House of Representatives economics committee inquiry into Home Ownership Friday 14 August 2015
David Collyer and Catherine Cashmore for Prosper Australia Introductory Remarks to the House of Representatives economics committee inquiry into Home Ownership Friday 14 August 2015 _____ Thank you for allowing us the time to speak today. Some background to our...
Evolving Economics Engagement
Evolving Economics is our fortnightly enews on upcoming events, current news and commentary. Join here. Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia august 2014 Prof. John Freebairn will present on state...
Value Capture at Melb Transport Super Forum
Last night's Melbourne Transport Super Forum featuring Minister Terry Mulden, the ALP's Jill Hennessy and the Green's Greg Barber was as packed as a Melbourne train with policy wonks and advocates. The presentations were dominated by the usual point scoring. But there...
Over the BBQ
They couldn’t afford a new house, but they could afford two. Plus they get the “tax benefit” of negative gearing the rental, which we know is a crock, and they’re doubly leveraged.
Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
Taxi users should be angry at being the victim of a scam obliging them to travel in discomfort so some ‘entrepreneur’ can enjoy a concessional license fee. And regular license holders ought to share that anger – their rent-seeking activity is being topped and captured by a sub-group, all in the name of mobility for the disabled.
The Reserve Bank of Blackjack
The lack of intervention by the RBA over recent years has left the Australian banking system facing an inevitable confrontation. A confrontation that will suck the very life out of the Australian economy; and our way of life. Lets face it, incomes, and GDP are simply not keeping up with the banks toxic spending binge.
3 terms to make property speculators stammer
Who pays for a $43 million windfall gain in three years? That's a 352% return for the "entrepreneurial" Richard Gu. His skill? To have the capital to buy the land, then to apply for a 1500 apartment re-zoning of the land (from commercial to multi-density). Not bad...
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