avocadia . # .

I was creeping my way towards...:

…suggesting the only way a flat tax could be equitable would be to do it as a negative income tax, and then someone, Ross Garnaut, goes and says it for me.

I don\'t quite know yet. The second of my qualms about a flat tax is that the Government would end up wasting a heap of money in administration for more welfare making sure the bottom end of the income scale isn\'t clobbered  - the first being that they would be clobbered. I imagine there must be a fair amount of administration overhead in hading out $x to every adult citizen, working or otherwise. There is a few more Medicare cards than there are people living in Australia, fr\'instance.