Who knows what drives this bloke. At the AFR:
Former federal Treasury boss and bank chairman Ken Henry says Australia’s “stupidity” and economically “illiterate” failure to tax the mining boom properly has cost the country dearly and prevented a badly needed cut to the 30 per cent company rate to boost investment and worker wages.
…the case for cutting the 30 per cent corporate rate was “weak”, unless the “mess” of Commonwealth-state taxation of natural resources was fixed and more revenue was raised from highly profitable mining and energy projects.
