Keating 'still has his marbles' following taxation comments: Terry McCrann

Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating has “still got his marbles” after describing the current tax rate as ‘confiscatory’, says business columnist Terry McCrann. “They are not only punitive for the taxpayer, but it means less tax revenues actually flow to the government,” Mr McCrann told Sky News host Sharri Markson. “One of the great lessons we should have learnt in the second half of the 20th century is that lowering the tax rate actually increases the tax harvest. “You get more production, you get more income, you get more taxes. “The brackets won’t be indexed, so we get inflation going up, we’ll get wages going up – we get that tax hike going up.”