Greens SA Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, has joined with Greens Senate Candidate for SA in calling for Labor to reverse their support for the Morrison government’s dismantling of Australia’s progressive taxation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Liberals and Labor are on a joint ticket when it comes to giving federal politicians a $9,000 tax cut, while minimum-wage workers – like those in aged care – get nothing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Why should we give a huge, permanent tax cut to Bank CEOs and Federal politicians, while low paid workers get nothing?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barbara Pocock, Greens Senate Candidate for SA and Emeritus Professor of Economics said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “It doesn’t pass the pub test or a 101 economics class.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Greens will oppose the Stage 3 tax cuts and we call on the opposition to do their job and join us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “You don’t need to be a professor of economics to realize that low paid workers are more likely than the wealthy to spend their tax cut back into the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “But as a Professor of Economics it is obvious to me that this isn’t fair and doesn’t stack up. And I think that a lot of South Australians who care about a fair go, would agree with me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The extreme changes as part of the Stage 3 tax shake up will take us closer to a flat-tax society like the US and undermine the ‘fair go’ that we expect in Australia.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “If I’m elected to the Senate for SA, I’ll vote to block and reverse these cuts as one step towards a fairer go in our tax system.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barbara Pocock is the Greens Senate candidate for South Australia and an Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Business School at UniSA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greens SA Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, has joined with Greens Senate Candidate for SA in calling for Labor to reverse their support for the Morrison government’s dismantling of Australia’s progressive taxation system. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: “The Liberals and Labor are on a joint ticket when it comes to giving federal politicians a $9,000 tax cut, … Continue reading “Labor should stand up for fair-go economics & oppose Stage 3 shake up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15639,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638\/revisions\/15639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}