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Podcast: The Numbers Game
Episode: Your Beer Is Taxed More Than Our Gas Exports | We Did the Numbers on What Could Have Been
Description: Australians pay more in beer tax than what the government collects from companies exporting our gas. Senator David Pocock has been calling it out in Parliament, it's doing the rounds, and it's got Jase fired up. He's done the numbers on the petroleum resources rent tax, looked at how Norway faced the same situation with their oil boom and took a very different approach, and what a 10% levy on Australia's resource exports over the last 20 years could have built.
On this episode, we discuss:
00:00) Intro
(00:17) Australia's Beer Tax vs Gas Export Tax
(00:40) David...