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A PM without a platform
Not everything John Maynard Keynes said was wrong. Admittedly his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money became the guidebook for 40...
Plain packaging ploy likely to go up in smoke
Turning public debate from the failed emissions trading scheme to universally despised tobacco emissions is a media masterstroke from Kevin Rudd,...
Rudd's other great big new tax
Economic rent has its origin in the labour theory of value. Classical economists couldn't understand why natural resources had value when human...
Is there a plan B for the ETS?
F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time,...
The murky business of sport
Lost in the endless vilification of Melbourne Storm is the notion of what salary capping means. It is an agreement by a group of businesses to...
Better use of tax take needed
There are more myths surrounding corporate taxation than personal taxation. In years gone by many used to argue that the "rich" didn't pay their...
Climate change requiem
Under pressure from local election defeats, the French Government has abandoned its plans to introduce a carbon tax, having suddenly discovered it...