Originally Posted by
CPMaverick
No way. When you are used to payinng 1.07 for a coke, and it goes to 1.09, you notice. If the tax increased by such a small amount, but was always included in the total, the price would probably have stayed the same.
It's such a political hot potato any change in the GST will make or break a government. I think anyone would notice a GST increase. At the very least the opposition would be shouting about it from the rooftops (whichever side was in opposition) . Keating proposed it in the 1980s, then dropped it. Hewson lost the '93 "unloseable" election over it (
and the price of a birthday cake*). Howard lost the popular vote in the 1998 election and barely scrapped back into government on a platform of introducing a GST.
*Those were the days when A Current Affair was a serious current affairs show.