Stephen Mayne

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4,168 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · Housing's Perfect Storm · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

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.

It's another argument for universality.

I agree with that.

Yeah.

And I also say that the marginal income tax rates in Australia are brutal.

and there's far less subsidies for the young versus the old, and we need to tilt back the generational differences there.

And it's just too tough.

bringing up kids and being a professional income earner today because the tax system is brutally against you, including the childcare, the loss of the subsidy.

So we're sympathetic,

And there's a bigger problem now, I'd say, because sure, the serviceability might be the same from a cash flow point of view, bigger debt, lower rate.

But in terms of paying back the principal, it's going to take you twice as long because your debt is so much higher.

So it's no good just being able to service people

alone, you need to be able to pay it back as well.

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