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I know it sounds harsh, but if no one is willing to tighten up on welfare spending, it has to be funded.

There are limited ways to increase taxes that make them indexed. For example it has been suggested introducing a land tax system, but unless the value of that land increases at the rate of inflation its value diminishes.

Wages tend to follow inflation, the same as welfare payments, I know it sounds harsh, but it is reality. If you are going to supply a generous welfare, education and health system, you have to work out an ongoing way to fund it.

All these layoffs in the W.A mining sector are high paying, high taxing jobs, the loss in tax reciepts has to be picked up somewhere.

That's just to tread water.lol