‘Unviable’: Foodies warned to brace for price hikes when eating out
If everything is going to rise because of the wage rise? Then what’s the point? Give one hand and take from another?
What’s The Point of Wage Rise if Everything Else Is Rising More?
Aerith-Waifu on 05/06/2025 - 06:57
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What good is more (nominal) tax to the government if everything the government will spend it on is more expensive in real terms?
it wins the government votes from simple minded fools that dont realise they are getting shafted
just look at the simple minded OPs on here commenting and defending economic stupidity
You could easily be talking about Tasmania. The LNP goose just evicted sucked the voters in and sold them out.Now the economy (state debt from hundreds of millions to 10 of billions) and hardly a tent built.
So choose a lane, who is the problem (no, seriously pick one, you've blamed both) ?
The voter or the gummnt?@Trying2SaveABuck: Both the same, but ALP always the problem. OK gotcha. (You probably donkey vote every time)
Look fwd to you running for government. We need visionaries with a plan. Post you plans and policies here.I'll critique them for free. You could run a poll(don't forget the costings.xxxx
@Protractor: the ALP 'federally' back the project
state ALP are against it and Greens
which one is wrong?
please answer the question
the for the record i like center ALP, my issue has and always will be the ALP and Greens alliance but with the Greens being almost destoryed in government esp with the recent defection in the sentate, the ALP is actually the better party when it remains center - if the ALP sticks to workers, Healthcare and housing and away from 'the voice/1st nations' wokeism and other progressive rubbish i hope they stay in power forever without the Greens moaning they should be ok- that doesnt mean i wont call out shit policies but overall the ALP when allowed to rule in their own right is 'not bad'
my issues are more around the econmic policy but otherwise im alright with out current federal government - im just not like you happily noding along i will call out both sides for being 'shit' - the Greens are just shit all the time and i have in my entire life only agreed with about 3 policies and i couldnt understand how anyone who can read would vote for them.
the only 'shit' ALP government we have is Victoria but the LNP are a basketcase in Victoria so it is essentially a f—ked state - NSW and SA ALP are good and ill note LNP in QLD are also very good - the very fact Victoria is bankrupt and about to have a A credit rating when we had a AAA credit rating 12 years ago tells you how f—ked the state is
My mums pension went up last year about $30….. the rent went up $40 a couple weeks later
So it is better to have low wage but everthing is cheap?
in Australia 'yes' we have a progressive tax system….(that is NOT indexed to inflation)
Not to mention the the medicare surcharge which is just a scam to get people to buy PHI….
also we have things like the GST which collects greater revenue the more expensive an item is as it is a 'flat' tax on goods and services
the idea that 'workers' are benefiting is a false narrative, it is the government who benefits with more tax revenue in terms of 'buying power' citizens are going backwards
this has been 'essentially' the case for 20 years now more or less
unless your wages are automatically adjusted for inflation like Politicans then chances are you're going backwards
however the biggest concern is in the last 3 years we have been in a per-capita recession for 26months ….which we all get less of the pie
bloke you have never posted anything worth reading i stopped reading after 'miraculously' - we all know your a socialist shill (nothing against that power too you!)
i once again ask you please dont comment on my comments to me you're clueless like a number of other shills on here and i cbf arguing with anyone on here with a clear 'agenda' nor do i care about 'anything' you have to say
there is an echo chamber of other socialist facts hating OPs on here im sure you can circlejerk with them - try reddit Australia it is 100% be your ally
@Trying2SaveABuck: Mate,dude,champ. You said 'this is the last time you ever reply to me'. What happened. Also free speech.Do you think you and your ideology should just dominate the skyline?
@Protractor: i dont have an ideology im not brainwash like you to think 'left good, right bad'
at this stage and based on your comments you 'gotta' be trolling
@Protractor: i couldnt care what your 'reckon'
i doubt anybody you know cares about your opinion why everytime i come on here your trolling lol
@Trying2SaveABuck: It's worse than jv's pointless comments and to top it off there's dozens of them each day.
Not to mention the the medicare surcharge which is just a scam to get people to buy PHI….
Never had PHI but I get ripped by the surcharge so I just expense every single thing possible to negate it. I wouldn't bother with that if the scam wasn't in place
Give one hand and take from another?
Yes.
It gives the illusion that the peasants are keeping up.
We don't want the peasants striking or rebelling do we?It works on psychology similar to how petrol prices go up. Petrol prices can go up 50 cents all of a sudden because <insert unrelated geopolitical event here>, the prices can sit there at the higher price for a year or two then fall back 25 cents and when they do then people are like 'woah petrol is so cheap now, that's a relief'.
Frog. Pot. Increasing water temperature.
Check out https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Although the site is America-centric similar observations can be made for the rest of the world too.
What **** did happened in 1971? And why?
United States stopped pegging the dollar to gold, efficiently marking the start of 'printing press' era. In other words the US government (and all others to follow) began to put out economic fires with money, giving the honors of servicing this circus to the ordinary folk.
That's partly the reason but not the whole story. America in the 1950s and 1960s was one of capitalism's greatest successes. They had plenty of rich people but also a mass of people doing well or just okay - the great middle-class. Thing is, all those people, especially the wealthy, were paying a load more tax than they do today. The rich people who ran the show, wanted to make more money and pay less tax - and in 1980, the election of Ronald Reagan gave them what they wanted. He dropped taxes but increased spending, setting the US on the debt course that it's still on. His policies encouraged the offshoring of manufacturing and that's what happened, the end result being vastly more rich people but a hollowed out middle-class. I'm uber right-wing and conservative and used to think that Reagan was great - until I started studying economics. He ended the USSR and its cronies, which was great but his economic and fiscal policies were a disaster for America and most of its people.
@R4: Thanks. So the rich got greedier and made the middle class work harder and longer. I guess they haven't learnt their past mistakes because they voted for Trump.
@congo: If you think about it, the election of DT is a direct result of what Reagan started. He wants to return manufacturing to America and boost the lot of working people - who have been smashed over the last 40 years. Good idea, but he's going the wrong way about it. His economic and fiscal policies are disastrous. His tariff ideas are mental. There's plenty of ways a US president could improve America, but not what he's doing.
@congo: The middle class is disappearing, economies in the west are moving towards the status quo in Asia where you are either wealthy or the working poor.
The size of the upper income population has increased 50% in a generation while everyone else is poorer
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-a…
In addition the difference in income between the top earners and everyone else has increased. The value of money is relative - if your income increases 50% in a generation but the income of high earners increases 69% - your income has actually decreased. This is why asset prices increase faster than average income, average incomes can't afford assets anymore, wealth is being redistributed to the rich.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-a…
Blaming people for voting for Trump is kicking a horse while it's down. Middle America has had their economy destroyed through globalisation and the response by the Democrat party and mainstream media has been to laugh at them and turn them into stereotypes. The Democrats were the first to be taken over by the billionaire class.
Of course people would rather vote for someone who promises to fix things - but may be lying- instead of someone who is telling you they won't help you and you should get a tech job that doesn't exist where you live. As long as it's popular to insinuate that people are stupid for voting for Trump and to completly ignore their concerns nothing will change
@congo: Exactly. And Trump isn't entirely stupid. Devious, yes, but not stupid. Therefore there was/is a different motive for the tariffs. I suspect it's to push other countries to trading more with other countries than the US. You can't achieve a multipolar new world order in which there is no single top dog if the US remains strong. So America has to be taken down a peg or two.
@[Deactivated]: I do blame Trump.He shagged the horse to death. Do you think isolationism will fix their problems? It was going down the gurgler before Trump, and it just took a viagra when the morons made him their god. But who cares? The yanks voted to be screwed over by a sociopath.
@Protractor: The poor US economy will have ripple effects across most other countries including Australia.
Younger generations will realise that it is pointless (unachievable) to work hard and save up to buy their first homes. They will just give up and Lie flat. Population will decline. It's not a positive outcome for the masses.@congo: Rapid AI adoption is going to screw them anyway. Musk knows this and yet still encourages ppl to breed like rabbits. Humans are their own existential meteorite.
The sooner Musk returns home to Mars the better. Hopefully he takes the jellyfish in the Whitehouse with him.
economies in the west are moving towards the status quo in Asia where you are either wealthy or the working poor.
And that's exactly how the elitists want it.
The Great Reset was launched by none other than King Charlie (king of the elitists).
And here we are acting like the useless eaters they think we are, bickering over crumbs.On one side:
The 3.5% increase in crumbs for the country's poorest workers are going to make my latte cost less than 3.5% more. They shouldn't get any more crumbs. I don't want to pay more for my oat milk decaf double shot latte. I will have to cut back on smashed avo toast.
On the other:
Cookie monster hungry! More crumbs! Yum yum yum. Crumbs!
Then what’s the point
Getting your information that raising the minimum wage is the problem and the last straw for business's from news.com seems like a bigger issue
Minimum wage raises do factor into increased prices, power bills as well but rents and the price of produce are probably the biggest factors.
Cost of living increases are much higher than CPI, people on minimum wage don't have a lower cost of living because TVs and electric cars get cheaper while the 'average' person does.
The minimum wage board consider all these things, decide they don't care, then provide a wage increase that's below CPI.
Why would they care? They have no skin in the game. I doubt any of them have ever worked for minimum wage. Let alone now with the cost of living crisis.
@tenpercent: Its not simply about having empathy for the poor. An economy where everyone can afford to consume goods is a stronger economy, it has more activity and everyone is materially better off.
The membership of the minimum wage board isn't economists, it's stacked with stooges who never question the simplistic understanding of economics that is good enough for running a single corporation, but isn't sufficient for making decisions that affect the entire country.
They simply believe if businesses are more profitable than the economy is better off, and they don't really care how businesses achieve the higher profit, even if it means destroying the very customers they need to sell to.
Lowering wages increases the 'productivity' statistic, but high productivity is supposed to be an aim because it increases workers living conditions- when they have access to cheaper goods. That doesn't work when productivity is only achieved by cutting wages. They chase KPIs without understanding them.
India is poor because it has such a large proportion of the population that are too poor to participate in the economy at all.
@[Deactivated]: The entire planet is poor because an overpopulated planet and capitalism are incompatible.Finite doesn't work with infinite.
Unless you want most ppl loving a miserable existence. Enslaved or living in the rubbish tip/gutter.
India is the blueprint.@Protractor: A greater number of people as well as a greater proportion of all people on the planet are not living in poverty today than at any point in human history and that is almost exclusively due to capitalism. But the capitalism that has been responsible for the massive improvement in living standards of the majority of the people on the planet was not stakeholder capitalism, and it was not unchecked corporate capitalism. Capitalism and government regulations are not incompatible. Most of it was figured that out in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but since the 1970s has been chipped away at by corporate and mega wealthy elitist interests who would rather see a gradual return to some kind of neo-fedualism or corporatocracy with just a veneer of democracy to keep the peasants docile.
It is compatible with Tesla!
The Tesla is being charged by a power outlet which also powers the garage door motor.
Wrong. Prices are not rising more, wages are rising more, by 0.3% (taking into account rising prices).
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/measuring-what-matters/mea…
pfft surely news.com.au is a better source for op's research?
Where did you get that photo of me?!
Yes, because the CPI is very accurate and the data not fettled to suit a narrative at all. 3.8%… who are they kidding.
My usual old gold chocolate bar was $3 half price, then $3.50 and now $4 all within 3 yrs🍫. That's a 33% rise.
The Hawa/Eljanna chicken Wrap was $8.50, now $14 (64% rise)
Aldi free range Dozen eggs $4.79 to $6.29 (31% rise)
Aldi Orange Juice $4.49 to $5.49 (22% rise)
Yeah, there's other things that have remained the same or only gone up 5%, but the median average will likely be 20%. I can guarantee you my pay hasn't gone up that much over the course of 3yrs.
Don't worry. The government says inflation is 2.4% and they have spreadsheets to prove it
Everything on your list has a reason for a price hike.
Chicken (bird flu)
OJ if it's local (and possibly applicable to imported) climate impacts
Eggs= bird flu/cullThat's not an excuse for the gouging, just saying.
yeah I'm not 'pulling a string in the ball of yarn' but these are just a few I could think of from the top of my head that are my usual items. The Lean Beef mince meat is still $15.50/kg so that hasn't changed. Steak (porterhouse, scotch fillet etc.) hasn't really changed. Right now there's a shortage of tomato supply and the avg. price is $12/kg but that's an exception which shouldn't be called out now.
Oranges are generally 99c-$3/kg depending on the season.Even if salaries are in line with inflation, we can't ignore the elephant in the room, housing. It's through the roof (no pun intended). That is what determines leftover disposable income.
@gezza90: Also when trades prices rise there's a flow on effect almost across the board. I haven't heard of any transport price drops, despite the fuel price being down for a long time now.
Milk /dairy will be going up again.
The flood & drought will also push all farm produce up, even in a glut situation that's how it rolls. eg,
The orgs representing export sheep farmers in WA, as a way of pushing back on the export ban, lean on culls before accepting a low price into local markets.Housing land chewing up peri urban horticulture will also see price rises as far as the eye can see.
As water shortages( water price rises) kick in more price rises.The problem with the hikes around food is like interest rate changes. The lag becomes a gouge that hangs aroundThe Lean Beef mince meat is still $15.50/kg so that hasn't changed
But what about old mate's go to scapegoat…
climate impacts
Yes but the weighting is what you are missing. The population spend a certain % of income on snacks. So a 33% rise in your chocolate bar doesn't have as much impact as the price of rent or petrol or insurance.
Petrol is down for example due to economic worries https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/retail-petrol-prices-l…
Rent is also flat. https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/latest-insights-rental-marke…
The ABS can skew their stats however they want. I guarantee wages have not risen nearly as much as prices.
Here’s something independent.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/chalmers-says-the-economy…
Agreed, OP needs perspective. Real wages relative to inflation have been going up, up and up for 20 years straight before COVID hit and we went down for 4 years, it's just started coming back up again. We can't have our lives improve in a straight line forever, there will be ups and downs along the way to the top. Just make sure you buy your own home and you'll be set. I know heaps of people who can live off just the pension alone because they have their mortgage paid off, life is good here.
Our real world wages are still stuck in 2011
We're over a decade off our previous bargaining power
Better than no wage rise and prices going up
essentially what happens in the USA
A rising tide floats all boats.
except ones with holes
.Do like Joe Hockey says and get a better boat.
Except everyone is in an overcrowded barbed wire canoe
Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers might not be the best source on whether people deserve pay rises. Consider minimum wage increases sits well below historical inflation, so it is more a catch up than getting in front.
All I can think of is that meme with Murdoch sitting on top of a pile of cookies and saying "Careful mate, that inflation wants a piece of your pay rise" while talking to a guy with a single cookie.
It's been about a month since they ran an article about a traffic controller earning 300 grand a year, so we should expect another one soon.
If an extra 85c an hour is going to run these businesses into the ground, then maybe their business case wasn't that solid to begin with?
Hard to run a cafe/restaurant in Australia when operating costs are high, taxes are high, minimum wage is high, inflation is high, and most people are counting their pennies because they need to live like a pauper to save up a house deposit or pay their mortgage.
Harder to run it at a profit when every man and his dog wants to run the same format small business with limited penny poor customers.That's life.
Hard to run a cafe/restaurant in Australia when operating costs are high, taxes are high, minimum wage is high, inflation is high, and most people are counting their pennies because they need to live like a pauper to save up a house deposit or pay their mortgage.
Cafes arent a good example although i agree with your point. - lower barrier to entry businesses will always struggle because they are 'shit' business model they ultimately are hit or miss have no moat
If an extra 85c an hour is going to run these businesses into the ground, then maybe their business case wasn't that solid to begin with?
depends on the business every single cent extra cost here means businesses will more likely move oversea
think call centers, tech support etc the higher the wages go the more the cost benefit moves against jobs in Australia
think Holden, Ford, Toyota and mitsubishi - and take your 'mentality' apply it at one stage wages when up 30 cents one year, then 50 cent the year after… then $x the year after etc….you can say if they cant afford it they arent a good businesses ….. but ultimately all those companies just shut up operation and went somewhere else with less red tape and a less expensive labour market - this was bad for Australia, bad for the economy and the workers themselves!!!
we live in 'free trade' and globalised market if conditions are uncompetitive here then we wont have jobs bar the bare skeleton staff companies have to have to operate ie think Google in Australia
the 'reason' Australia is so heavily reliant on mining is you 'cannot' just offshore a mine you need to mine it onsite thus mining is one of the few industries that cant just be sent overseas however China has started mines in nations of Africa and other asian countries
the reason why nations like the USA (think Dubai) are doing so well is they see human labour as commoditiy in a over populated world it might not be 'ethically' sound but it isnt nessearily wrong they have benefited greatly from cheap labour from poor nations - Australian laws dont allow this to happen thus why so few businesses invest in Australia and thus why we are the least econmincally diverse nation on the planet - real estate and mining…
if you ask me if we are going to 'keep' bring in high levels of migrants we might need to 'rethink' our expensive low skill labour market
All I read is
greed is good.
Commodifying humans (especially if you can use other countries humans) is a winning model.
The fact that you 'actually' think we should do all the stuff above and put $$ before a life worth living.
There's your ideology. Good luck at the election.The fact that you 'actually' think we should do all the stuff above and put $$ before a life worth living.
never did i say we should do this
but just to call out your hypocrisy - we 'do this' by ignoring it and importing it
do you think the cloths made in Vietname or Bangladesh you own? are being made in an ethical fashion?
the Cheap Chinese Cars people are buying do you think the materials are being made from Green energy? you think the min wage in laws in those nations are giving workers a 'fair go'
LMAO champ you are dumber then i thought or perhaps just evil and/or naive
what i believe is we are better off keeping things here within some regulation and standard but not an uncompetitive market oppose to the way we are heading
we once had the balance between decent conditions and reasonably ethical manufacturing - we have lost this and alowed the world to build everything for us ignoring how we manage to get the good we consume
There's your ideology.
your mantra is - communism speaking of things that dont work?
Good luck at the election.
am i a polician? LMAO
if you have not realised this is probably the most 'conservative' government we have had since Abbott lol i did win the last election - lower taxes? free trade? more military spending? zero mention of wokeism? garenteed FF till 2070 for Woodside? money on healthcare for all not a select few? more coal exports? more gas production? more gold mines? high migration to keep low paid workers 'low paid' whilst pushing up housing investment and other business investment up….
do you think you won?
i like our government i dont love it but i do mind what we got - they are in line with my idiology - bar the Super Tax which doesnt affect me one bit im fairly alright with the ALP (although i agree it should be indexed) but i couldnt care one bit for those who are going to get stung but this as i will surely benefit from the government spend as i currently benefit from said spending…so more spending more investment etc will make more 'more wealthy'
Champ you might want you look at what you are supporting becuz it isnt a progressive government this is probably the most right government we have had in 10 years - i will re-state this because you dont seem to comprehend it the ALP are good without the Greens they arent progressive at all not in anyway more 'progressive' then the opposition
now i know this must trigger you but 'you lost' last election you only think you won becuz the media have trained you to think one party is left and right when 'both' parties are right LMAO
Most of them have gamed prices since covid.
For the majority of Australians, it's not possible to get ahead by working.
You can keep saving and saving, and getting 2-5% wage rises each year, but the price of goods and services will rise faster, and house prices will still become more and more out of reach.
If you had started saving in 2020 on a typical full-time wage, you might have saved $150-$250k by now, but house prices will have risen $400k-$1 million over the same period. So you're now $350k-$750k poorer depending on where you end up buying a house.
The way to financial security in Australia is buy up all the houses and rent them out, or sell them for profit in 10-20 years.
You achieve this by buying a house more than 5 years ago (before late 2020), or inheriting a house, then use your equity to buy up more and more houses, rent them out for $700-$1500/week, and sit back and laugh at all the people trying to make money by working.
The government has made this extremely easy to do as long as you a) bought a house more than 5 years ago, or b) inherit a house, or c) are born extremely wealthy, or d) are a politician earning >$400k.
In addition, the government has made it quite clear that it will keep pumping more and more money into the property market to make wealthy people wealthier via negative gearing, CGT discounts, and all kinds of schemes that are pretending to help people who don't own houses, but are actually designed to enrich people who own multiple houses by increasing the value of all their houses faster than wage growth.
The managed decline of our nation continues.
Immigration does increase competition (for the same job) and increase housing prices.
I guarantee the majority we allow to come into the country are not plumbers, electricians, carpenters and builders,
The stats back this up.
Spot on. We have a 2 tier immigration system - high standards for skilled migrants, no standards for the rest. Hence more uber eats drivers and servo workers(admittedly, the vast majority of which are not PR and never will be) and less genuinely skilled migrants - more Asian people, less Westerners (and skilled Asians). Saying that, migration from the UK and Ireland is the highest it's been for decades and most are skilled (go to a hospital in Perth and you will hear Irish accents).
@R4: The problem is the plebs bought into (literally) AI,gig economy etc. eg They (consumers) demanded salves and got them. We don't grow our own slaves. I'm happy about that part of the shit fest.
As for immigration 15% of the Afrikaner population is living in Straya.At that to your list of high %.
@Protractor: As long as those salves (?) never, ever get PR and citizenship and never have access to Medicare, Centrelink and the aged pension then it's all good - guest workers only. PR can only ever be given to skilled migrants.
Immigration = good
Mass immigration = bad@R4: STEP !>We need a royal commission into the dept responsible for migration, to address obvious anomalies.
The talk is not matching the walk and too many favours exist.
Until then all migration should be halted.The govt has lost control of the process. The 'stopped boats' have been replaced by back door planes,going through the front door.As for our resident slavery ( via the migration based working poor) they should be a part of the minimum wage construct.The real big picture is the planet is over populated. It all flows from there.Paradise doesn't need a second storey.@Protractor: Yes, our migration system is a joke and should be severely curtailed until it's sorted out. Anyone trying to come by boat is an idiot - come on some bullshit student visa and they'd be here for years.
@R4: You seem to be hell bent on protecting,or at least ignoring the majority problem though. Ppl coming through legit channels who are leaners, not lifters. Royal Commission please. Do we really need a program of family reunions when those elders are a health system liability for 2 X 20 years each 'just because , Dick & Dora now live here.
FTS
Royal Commission please.
@R4: The number of international student visas is around 2x the number of permanent migration visas.
Australia has decided to align with India and away from China. Chinese students spend a lot of money in Australia, most return home after study. A much higher proportion of Indian students end up remaining. This isn't surprising but it is completely ignored, Australia doesn't control student visas at all, as long as institutions offer a place of study the student is eligible for a visa, all you need is enough money to pay the fees.
The rate of migration is going to increase rapidly over the next decade and noone will be able to tell you why - because the number of visas granted each year won't change significantly. Wages for young people will be crushed, especially for those that do what they are 'supposed to' and go to university.
@R4: Are you kidding? There's 2 million people here on 'student' visas. That's the vast majority of your servo workers and uber eats drivers and student visas are a pathway to PR. PR like citizenship is handed out like candy, thats why they're all still coming.
@LanceVance: But,but but….Ppl can't make their own coffee, and operate the servo register,or drive ubers, or any number of tasks we are 'too good' for.
@Protractor: I guess we never had any 17 year olds working at servos or as pizza delivery boys for their first job.
@LanceVance: If you're working in a servo or driving uber, you won't get PR in the majority of cases. The main driver for these, largely, subcontinent 'students' is not to study, but to be a servo worker or uber eats driver. I work with some Pakistani engineers (genuine skilled migrants) and they tell me this is what's happening. Our migration system is a joke - it never used to be but it is now.
Yep. Where we are today is not accidental. Same all over the Western World.
Eh, not really right as there are plenty of other avenues but I get the general sentiment. You can retire comfortably with no house and live off stock market returns.
Yeah but still got to pay rent, and who knows what rent will cost in the future. Makes it harder to save and invest in the stock market.
Rent can over ever be what the market can bare regardless of underlying house prices. The reality at the moment is they are artificially inflated due to lack of supply, "eventually" that has to be sorted one way or the other. But regardless rent can't ever go beyond what the average person can pay unless supply gets even worse, but at that point I think people will be chasing fed, state and local government with pointy sticks and rocks.
The problem is now so bad that it's obvious.
The government puts in a new tax so that people with more than $3m in superannuation don't get a tax discount beyond that, and everyone loses their minds.
It's no wonder no government will fix the problem, it is better to ignore problems and get elected, rather than fix problems and lose your seat.
BTW, did you know the problem is all 'supply'. Just ignore that the rate of new housing construction in Australia is one of the highest in the OECD. The ONLY problem is supply!
more tax for the government