Labor's ‘eat the rich' super tax will harm the young aspirationals
'Eat the rich' may be the guiding principle of Labor's new superannuation tax, but aspirational young Australians will be gobbled up instead.
At first blush, Labor's new super tax reflects the politics of class conflict in the spirit of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose phrase 'eat the rich' warned that the poor may take the heads of the rich who build wealth at their expense.
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