Its not simple because its genuinely complex: Moral obligation is perhaps a more complex matter than the 11,000 page of tax regulation. Who prospers? Everyone.
Rich people get police and defamnation laws. Middle class get superannuation, freeways, pensions and inducements to have babies and private health insurance. The poor get welfare, buses in the middle of the day and employment agencies. This is hardly a matter for a simple moral formula.
The amount of tax regulation could be simplified with a flat tax. This would short-circuit most of the tax schemes, the real reason for the blowout.
A more modest idea would be to scrap the various deductions available to employees, which is also a mess. OR scrap GST free items such as food, water and air. (OK, air is not GST-free)
These are mere ideas - I don\'t support them.
The government is selling Telstra, so that is making government smaller and more limited, but will probably make our taxes higher. You see: the government is not revenue drunk. They hate revenue!
Governments operate where markets and companies would probably fail or be grossly inefficient (eg paying 50 cents every time you used a public toilet) That in itself tells you: Hey this is complicated!
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