Thomas Walker
Thomas Walker is the CEO of Think Forward, an economics think tank run by younger Australians.
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Don’t believe the scare campaign. Taxing wealth is our best way forward
The next generation of great Australian workers, carers, thinkers and businesses comes from investing in Australia’s people, not from tax breaks.
- Thomas Walker
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- Opinion
- Tax reform
Labor must fix our tax system. Anything less is economic destruction
The spending and accumulation of Australia’s asset-rich owners is counteracting the belt-tightening of earners – and there’s only one way to fix it.
- Thomas Walker
- Opinion
- Housing affordability
If Labor really cared about our future, these tax breaks must go
If you’re buying your fourth investment property, you’re a true-blue Aussie. But a student receiving rent assistance? You’re a fiscal burden.
- Thomas Walker
- Opinion
- Australian economy
We’ve worked hard, got an education, found jobs. But it’s not enough
The social contract - the idea that a job is enough to feed and house a family - has been lost.
- Thomas Walker
- Opinion
- Tax reform
The myth of the self-funded retiree: Why we need urgent tax reform
What many wealthy Australians don’t seem to realise is that their wealth has grown with considerable taxpayer support – over $100 billion to be exact.
- Thomas Walker
- Opinion
- Inheritance
Inheritances are destroying the ‘fair go’. It’s time to tax them
We’re in the middle of the largest intergenerational wealth transfer ever, and it’s beginning to tear at our nation’s social fabric.
- Thomas Walker