Your say: week beginning June 23

Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au

Monday June 23

Dear Treasurer…

“Most multinationals pay little or no tax in Australia. This is because they’re taxed on their profits, which they shift to foreign or low tax jurisdictions. Ordinary Australians pay tax on our income. So why don’t we tax corporations on their income, instead of their profits? After all they are reaping the benefits from doing business here with the advantage of the infrastructure and services paid for by our taxes – so they should contribute.”

Tony Drake, Brisbane

Tax companies more

“Corporate taxes should go up, not down. Personal tax rates should be lowered instead. Why? Because we’re a consumption based economy, so lowering personal taxes results in high consumption, period! Lowering company taxes results in higher profits shifted overseas or to shareholders, CEOs and executive bonuses.”

Rolf Stockburger

Tax truce

“We need a bipartisan approach from all sides of parliament to discuss the taxation situation in Australia. No one wants to pay more, however we all have demands to satisfy our needs in education, health and government services. All politicians should get together representatives and reach a consensus on how we can have a fair system of taxation going forward.”

Richard Cantwell, Gisborne VIC

Tuesday June 24

We’ve been wondering too, Michelle

“I would love to see an explainer about how legal the US’ attack on Iran is, from an international law standpoint. There were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq and that US administration had rather more credibility than the current one. I’m disquieted by the way the western media is seemingly replaying errors from very recent history.”

Michelle Spencer

Ed: Don Rothwell has written on this very topic.

No change

“I have experienced the hollow sounds of a men’s behaviour change program with my ex-husband. The resounding lack of echo means this is a dead duck. Shame about the lack of public involvement, the lack of discussion, the "behind closed doors” attitude that goes hand in hand with these programs.“

Name withheld

Losing my religion

"I was keen to find out more about a lost major artist when I began reading about Eric Smith. But when I saw his religious paintings, finishing the article became a chore. Religious pictures belong to a time when faith was widespread and claimed to be universal, without that context religious images feel like cliches. Smith’s disappearance seems more like an artist who lost touch with the world he lived in, than anything mysterious.”

Kym Houghton