Spender’s tax reform plan doesn’t tackle real causes of unfairness

Australia’s bloated tax system is making us all poorer, while the arguments for reform are making us stupider because they continue to deal exclusively with the symptoms while ignoring the underlying cause of reckless government spending.

In the last four years, real wages have fallen to levels not seen since Labor reintroduced centralised wage fixing in 2008. The purchasing power of a worker on $90,000 has been shrinking by more than $2700 a year since