Stephen Mayne
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4,460 appearances
12 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
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And I say, bring it on, let's have more of it.
And so, yeah, it's interesting to see that finally we're getting some big shareholders who are actually not voting by proxy.
They're waiting until the meeting and ambushing boards and maximising their impact.
So bring it on.
More of that, please.
Very interesting.
Well, we've got 20 questions to get through.
Jack, my wife and I are mid-30s professionals, a couple of kids, one on the way, and a mortgage, and we haven't accessed the bank of mum and dad since leaving high school.
We've been taking some money out of the offset to invest in shares for years, but this year I'm questioning whether it's worth it.
And then Jack goes on and has crunched all the numbers, and his basic proposition is that taxes are so brutal, and when you add in the capital gains tax changes, the Medicare levy, what they're paying back in HECS, how much they've lost in accessing the childcare subsidy –
He's saying that there's no incentive to go out there and take a risk and people like me, we should just sit back and maximise our debt on our house to minimise our tax.
Who'd take a risk when the government, and he's worked it out, he's saying that we're losing, you know, close to 70% of every extra dollar earned because of HECS and childcare subsidies and things kicking in.
So it's an argument against saying the tax system is anti...
incentive to work and to take a risk and what can the government do to bring back more incentives to people like us to have kids because the other point is that the birth rate has crashed from three and a half in the 60s to one and a half and he's saying people like us who are having kids
We're just getting whacked and it's a massive disincentive to have kids.
So what should we do to encourage ambitious young professional couples to have kids as well,
Universal childcare regardless of income.
There's no means testing on primary schools.
So, look, you're right.
It's another argument just on the childcare piece.
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