Rudd’s disastrous resource rent tax: how the right let the country down again
Gerard Jackson Monday 14 June 2010 A short time ago Gina Rinehart — Australia’s richest woman — helped lead a protest in Perth against Prime Minister Rudd’s destructive resource rent tax. The striking...
View ArticleDeficits, taxes and the Democrats’ hypocrisy
Gerard Jackson Monday 18 October 2010 Raising taxes to eliminate the Obama’s deficit would be thoroughly destructive. But when it comes to taxes the Americans have been there before, along with...
View ArticleWhy the US economy is floundering and where it is going
Gerard Jackson Monday 18 October 2010 Last year I explained that there would no recovery and that manufacturing was heading for a slowdown. Both of these predictions came to pass. I am forever...
View ArticleWe will pay a heavy price for Julia Gillard’s technology fantasy
Gerard Jackson 14 March 2011 Listening to Julia Gillard and Greg Combet talk promote a carbon tax while lecturing us on the nature of technical progress reveals just how much Australian have to fear...
View ArticleGarnaut and Gillard’s carbon tax plan is an impending disaster
Gerard Jackson Monday 21 March 2011 Professor Ross Garnaut’s call to cut income taxes by $5.75 billion for low and middle income earners is an indirect admission of the ghastly costs of Julia Gillard’s...
View ArticleAmerican jobs, factories and investment: the picture is grim
Gerard Jackson Monday 21 March 2011 The Washington Post recently published a story revealing that if the hidden jobless were included in the unemployment rate it would jump to 10.5 per cent. (Hidden...
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