The AFR is living in the past.
But political focus on an unequal, unfair tax burden conveniently deflects attention from the Albanese government’s quiet achiever status as a high taxing, high spending government.
Tax as a percentage of GDP will go up next year to 23.8 per cent and stay there the following year. This also ignores the lack of any substantial reduction in government spending – still growing at 4.3 per cent in real terms this financial year.
