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Flat White

Time to tackle Tax Office tyranny

5 November 2020

5:00 AM

5 November 2020

5:00 AM

If there’s a connection between the Australian Taxation Office and COVID-19, it can be described in one word:‘dictatorship.

For freedom lovers, Covid demonstrated the waferthin line between freedom and overbearing government authoritarianism. In Victoria, for example, many have been shocked by the speed with which the checks and balances on government were dissolved and replaced by a form of dictatorship.  

This was done, of course, in the name of the greater goodto save people from disease and death.

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