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...Plibersek points out, if Australian society chooses to pay mothers -including millionaire mums with 15-year-olds-for the full-time care they give their children, we can't choose only to pay mothers with partners. Or consider the many disincentives to work that have become entrenched in the tax and welfare systems. The withdrawal of certain (means-tested) benefits as income rises leads to high effective marginal tax rates. For some families in the middle-income tiers, it means they lose 70? for each extra dollar earned. So a second earner, usually a woman, is discouraged from seeking work...
...study of the tax treatment of families under the Howard government-and of the general thrust of two decades of tax reform-by Professor Patricia Apps from the University of Sydney is revealing. She found that the combination of tax cuts and additional family payments in recent years has produced a dual shift in the tax burden: the largest income gains are going to single-earner families and to those at the top of the earnings tree...
...terms of real tax burdens," she writes, "a low- to middle-wage family with both parents employed full time now effectively works many more hours for the government than a higher-wage single-earner family with the same family income." Apps documents the squeeze on Middle Australia-paying for the increased benefits of those at the bottom and the tax cuts of those at the top. According to Apps family taxation now closely approximates so-called "joint taxation," a long-held policy ideal...
...inadequacy of the changes to FTB rest on a simple truth: after a decade of constructing a family-welfare state on this scale, major improvements aren't likely to come from the architects. Labor leader Kim Beazley's support crew is mulling over the implications of the trends in tax and welfare. Beazley is now pitching to the middle; the tax burden, workplace insecurity, high petrol prices and interest-rate rises are the core of his crusade. It's also open season on Howard's welfare mothers...
...Australian Labor M.P. is a rare bird. Plenty of pols write books; only some are deep thinkers, fewer still are prepared to serve up ideas that go against party doctrine. An economist with big dreams, Emerson ranges widely and passion-ately from health to education, infrastructure to population policy, tax to trade. He proposes a universal payment to mothers of children aged under three, equity (rather than debt) funding of students in higher education, and a revival of economic activity in the regions. Many have spoken of the nation's complacency; its obsession with material wealth and comfort...