I think you have it the wrong way around. Big Government has occurred under the ALP.
Big govt. is usually measured by tax take to gdp. Under labor average 21.1 and the howard libs 23.4
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I think you have it the wrong way around. Big Government has occurred under the ALP.
Yes, that's the proposal. The father can take the leave but it's paid at the mothers rate. Another baby bonus scheme that will eventually be paid out of general revenue.
But IMHO if they really wanted to find a way to enable women to return to their roles they should consider the cost of child care. We had four children so found it more cost effective to hire a nanny but that still meant the economic advantage of returning to work was slim.
By the time you work out take home pay after deducting childcare costs and forgone welfare benefits and family tax benefits sometimes you might as well stay at home if income was your main driver.
The difference of big government under Coalition and big government under Labor/Green is characterised by the integrity of the relied upon funding sources. Labor spent before building a fall-back of accummulated savings from fiscal discipline. The rhetoric of Coalition ideology is that spending programs are from surplus and a result of fiscal discipline and is a dividend back to the electorate. Labor/Green ideology on spending programs is high on centrally led ephemeral enhancement to human civilisation, quick on borrowings, loose on repayment in the future and low on productivity econometrics.
Big govt. is usually measured by tax take to gdp. Under labor average 21.1 and the howard libs 23.4
Big business is going to be charged a levy that goes to general revenue and the existing paternity leave scheme that is presently funded by taxpayers will be scrapped.
I reckon that's a savings to the taxpayer.
This might be the best post of all time.
The taxpayer goes form paying $557 a week for 18 weeks, to paying a max $1442 a week for 26 weeks, and this is a saving to the taxpayer?
And I'm sure those big companies paying extra in tax will pass on any of those costs to the end consumer.
This might be the best post of all time.
The taxpayer goes form paying $557 a week for 18 weeks, to paying a max $1442 a week for 26 weeks, and this is a saving to the taxpayer?
And I'm sure those big companies paying extra in tax will pass on any of those costs to the end consumer. Because as we learnt with the carbon tax, any 'Great Big New Tax' ((c) Tony Abbott) is ultimately passed on to the end consumers. Tony has said so.
But, as Aaron and Francesco pointed out, the Liberal Party is aboult less government, so I'm sure this 'tax and spend' policy must be an abberation.
That would be a hard one to sort out ,,first start with all the former union people within Labor,they don't care "if" immigration falls,or interest rates rise or the Aussie $$$$ goes below 90 cents,then look at the rest within Labor and the way they think,but everyone knows one simple item none of them will withstand the onslaught later on this year no matter who is cooking the books..Turnbull showed he was poor at playing politics, which proves my point.
We don't need people PLAYING politics, doing things like running out of the chamber when a vote is taken. We need people with policy ideas and the intellect to deliver.
It may be a maximum but the average amount paid out based on the average womems wage at childbearing age is nowhere near that - heard some figures being thrown about on the ABC and it was well inder the average wage.
Business might be paying but in combination with confidence in government the scenario in how business handle this would probably be quite different.
I was just stating some facts.
No one should downplay what damage this government has done to business confidence and what role that plays on the economy.
Amen to that. Nail on the head.
Most people who plan to work don't plan on having 4 children under 5 if child care is going to be too expensive - they space them out so they aren't all in childcare together, or they have less children.