24 February

It still angers me that people who go to university pay an extra tax, HECS. The rationale for it was always that they earn more because of their degrees. Some do, some don’t. I know more rich tradies than rich university graduates. Uni graduates who don’t end up well off still pay the tax. We already have a way to address income inequality, it’s called income tax. Already one of the dumbest countries on Earth, why would we tax education? Because we’re dumb, I guess I answered my own question. That and because the mega-generation who are now retiring, who mostly got their education for free, now prefer governments to fund massive handouts to retirees.