Tobacco taxes have created a massive violent black market complete with fire bombings, shootings, and now with added Iranian terrorism. In exactly the same way that the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the early 1900s created Al Capone and the rise of gangsters, so too has the punitive taxation of tobacco in […]
Once again, the government is handing us a set of crutches to compensate us for the fact that the government broke our legs. With apologies to Harry Brown, who came up with the original quote about crutches and broken legs, actually, what’s happening is they’re giving us a chair to balance on to replace the […]
It’s daylight robbery all over again. In the late 1600s, King William III in England imposed a window tax with tax collectors literally walking around homes, counting the number of windows and sending the homeowners the tax bill. The logical response was, of course, that many people simply boarded up their windows, throwing their homes […]
There’s a new push to tax homeowners even more with a new taxpayer funded report coming out which is frankly an embarrassment to the authors, but we’ll get to that. It’s claiming that we need to tax capital gains on owner-occupied homes and claims that Australia is a homeownership welfare state. Now, a report like […]
Well, good news everybody. Fresh off delivering on his promise to reduce our power bills by $275. You all, you’ve all gotten that discount, right? I mean, I haven’t yet, but I’m sure you have. Everybody else has gotten it, right? Anthony Albanese, our prime minister, is promising to look at productivity and he’s bringing […]
Jacinta Allan has found yet another creative way to tax Victorians. And the best part for her is that this time they’re not fighting to stop her. They’re actually cheering her on because they can’t see what’s happening right before their very eyes. Jacinta Allan has promised to make working from home 2 days per […]
What about a transaction tax? I get this question quite a lot and I know there’s a lot of videos out there about how a simple transaction tax with a tiny percentage of every transaction being taken by the government in tax would raise enough revenue that we could abolish the income tax, abolish the […]
The fact that the cost of living is skyrocketing is well documented, I’m not going to labour that point here. And some of the causes are also well documented… for example the MASSIVE expansion in the money supply is a driver of inflation, as is the reduction in productivity caused by all the Covid over-reaction, […]
The more I think about it, the more sure I am that we’re at an incredible turning point in history. People are rising in ways not seen in the western world for over 200 years. Let’s consider a few recent examples: Canadian Truckers humiliated WEF poster-child Justin Trudeau, forcing him to end his emergency powers […]
Allow me to echo the infamous words of then Prime Minister Paul Keating when he said “This is the recession we had to have”, we are now faced with the “Inflation we weren’t going to have”… at least we weren’t going to have it according to many of the ‘experts’. As of the other day, […]
