Alan Kohler

Well, I think he might be.

I do think, I mean, I'm not sure I said this, but I think that if you're going to get rid of bracket creep with indexation of tax scales, fair enough, but you've got to find some other way of increasing or getting more, you know, having a growth tax.

So you simply have to, in my view...

offset it by increasing GST to something close to the OECD average of 20% or have a wealth tax of some sort, which a lot of companies do.

I mean, countries do.

So because, you know, I just don't think it's – even Angus Taylor I don't think is capable of cutting spending to the extent necessary to deal with the end of bracket creep.

I just, you know –

I mean, he can talk all he likes about it, but I think that if you end bracket creep, you're going to end up with bigger deficits because there's no way they're going to be able to cut spending to the extent they think they can.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Did you pick that up when that came out?

So is Bramble saying that that's going to be good for them?

It's a double-edged sword there.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Well, very good.

So we couldn't even get through the questions that we picked out, let alone the 20 pages of questions.

So anyway, good to talk to you again, James.

Have a good summit about mining in Perth and we'll see you in a couple of weeks.

Thanks, everyone, for listening to today's episode.