Whatever happened?

“A simple yet sovereign remedy which will raise wages, increase and give remunerative employment, abolish poverty, extirpate pauperism, lessen crime, elevate moral tastes and intelligence, purify government and carry civilization to a yet nobler height, is to abolish all taxation save that on land values”.

• Fifth Inter-colonial Congress of Trade Unions (Barnard, History of Australia, p.417)

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Nup! If you can’t beat property speculators, let’s join them. Let’s set up industry superannuation funds.