if you are wondering why we are paying to much tax, ring your state premier and ask them why they didnt abolish their duty taxes that were supposed to be abolished when the gst came in. and then you can ring Rudd up and thank him for being a soft cock and giving into the states demands of giving them a bigger share of gst before they abolish these taxes. most of our tax problems are at state level over federal level. thanks to rudd there is bugger all reason for states to give up those taxes now.
but where the federal side of things has to blame is
previous to the last few years Aussies were happy to pay high taxes but of late our hatred for higher taxes is coming from the way the money is being wasted,
unlike the usa who chucks a spazy when they have to pay higher taxes to have a health care system that the rest of the world has, we are happy to pay more tax when its not being spent on shit like it is of the last few years.

we all know the carbon tax is just Labors attempt to try and tax its way out of debt. where we are all screaming at the tv when the adds come on tv about the carbon tax, "saying just stop wasting money and we dont need this tax"
If we were talking about paying more taxes for better health system and increase to old age pension we might be inclined to want it, but when we see things like us spending $42b on a fancy broad band network and us going and paying a carbon tax to fund us having high speed internet, we think why would would we tolerate it?
that's where the problem lies with this current gov, not to mention this gov believes in tax refunds over tax cuts, you pay more tax now we will give you some back at the end of the year. Id like to say their new increase to the tax free thresh-hold is a good thing, but unfortunately that is only after they introduce a carbon tax. but then we will give you some money back when you do your tax return as compensation, its stupid.