Bosses of Santos, Woodside, Chevron and Shell asked to give evidence to Greens-led gas tax inquiry

It will never stop being crazy to me that we settle for these gigantic corporations paying little or no tax. I keep encountering people having Gordian Knot arguments, trying to pick away at the tiny little tangled strands of problems from a perspective that we just don’t have the budget to make most things considerably better… When in reality we could just slash through the middle of those tangled issues with the incredible amount of money that would come from appropriately taxing massive corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Not even taxing them heavily like they ethically fucking deserve, but just taxing them moderately as you would anything else.

Public transport is the easiest example – people having careful conversations about whether fares should be variable based on distance or time, whether urban vs rural should be different prices, etc. Or, y’know, we could just have all public transport be free forever by taxing massive corporations and billionaires.

These corporations make record profits that go straight into the pockets of their executives and shareholders and everybody’s cool with that instead of that money being used to just make all of our lives better. Absurd.