Not that your projected superannuation changes are aimed at taking two bob; what they seem designed to do is limit the amount of loot that the wealthy can stash away at other tax payer’s expense.

But there’s a simple solution to all this: two-steps that will not only make Budget repair a piece of cake but also claw back some of the respect and trust that have deserted politicians in this terrible world-wide landscape of greed and exploitation.

First, you should abolish the Australian Tax Office. 

The applause will be deafening; Mr Murdoch will cheer and you’ll get lovely headlines in The Australian. Nobody likes to pay tax and the wealthier you are the less you seem to like it; some people and their organisations pay zillions to avoid it.

But here’s the trick: you set up the Australian Office of Community Contribution. Now I know it’s a longer name and there’s an extra printing cost involved but everybody likes to make a contribution and if the amounts of contribution are made transparent we should have a new world immediately.

Contributors, both private and corporate, could be honoured for their wonderful contributions in various categories at special award ceremonies with presentations of little statues and medals at gala events and fabulous balls and lists published of the top contributors.

Instead of the universal June 30 groan of “doing your tax”, people would make their bid for recognition in good spirits and with optimism having selected the category to which they are most suited. The categories need not be limited to mining, steel making, car repair, cattle breeding etc. but they may also have city and even suburb delineations to cater for ordinary folk.

The surly and the smart alecky tax cheats and minimisers now lurking furtively in the gloomy corridors of statistics would be replaced by a new breed of proud people walking tall, bathing in the esteem of other citizens, proud of medals won for being a “Top Contributor”.

We would have a new breed of community heroes and we should acknowledge them as just that: Community Hero or Heroine, and they should be encouraged to wear their special ribbons and little lapel badges and broaches in acknowledgement of their status.

The current group of tax agents and accountants would become Contribution Agents and Advisers swinging from their current negative function of tax minimisation to a positive one of contribution optimising in their bid to get their client a well deserved gong.

But this is where step two comes in. There would be an overwhelming need for a properly funded and wide ranging National Anti-Corruption body of the type already called for by many prominent people even today.

Part of its function would be to ensure that people did not over contribute in their desperate desire to win medals and public esteem and bogusly become celebrities earning the title of Public Hero or Heroine.

So there you are, Mr Turnbull: a brave, exciting and innovative world of no tax and no corruption.  Your stocks will rocket.

FRED GOLDSWORTHY