The real travesty of the WA GST deal
When we should be debating either broadening or raising the GST, we are instead discussing whether taxpayers should continue subsidising Australia’s richest state.
To critics, it’s one of the worst public policy decisions of this century. But to advocates, it’s a simple tweak that addresses a gross inequity.
The West Australian GST deal will cost taxpayers another $5.2 billion next financial year, as the federal government tips in ever more money to paper over the permanent damage done by the Turnbull government to Commonwealth-state financial relations.
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