The Albanese government should not be introducing new taxes when it will not stop rivers of tax revenue flowing to organised crime for corruption.

We already know Treasurer Jim Chalmers is considering a new housing tax by adjusting the capital gains discount, a higher income tax by ending negative gearing, and a new family savings tax on trusts. And when it comes to spending your money, the Albanese government does not seem to care.

According to Treasury estimates, government spending this year is $100bn more than Treasury predicted it would spend four years ago. Government spending is driving up interest rates, mortgages and taxes. Financed with debt, it is the fuel that has ignited Australia's inflation fire and the reason interest rates are higher.

Those who benefit from the spending are the few, not the many. The average worker in Canberra is paid $200 a week more than the average Australian elsewhere.

Last week, the Federal Member for Wentworth, Allegra Spender, put forward her own higher-tax plan. She wanted to offset it with slightly lower income taxes. But the Treasurer has ruled those out.

All Spender has done is "teal-lit" Chalmers' tax increases.

But before we talk about increasing taxes, surely it should be a higher priority to stop taxes from honest Australians financing dishonest corruption first.

The first place to start would be National Disability Insurance Scheme corruption. The NDIS is a program to ensure some of society's most vulnerable get the support and assistance they need. Instead it has become a honey pot for corruption and fraud.

The National Disability Insurance Agency itself estimates about $5bn, or 10 per cent of the total $50bn pool, is accessed for corruption and fraud. The truth is, they are underestimating the scale of the corruption.

Next would be reclaiming public money that has found its way into the hands of organised crime through public infrastructure. A recent report from corruption watchdog, Geoffrey Watson SC, estimated between $15bn and $30bn of taxpayers' money has been handed to organised crime through the CMFEU-Labor cartel just in Victoria.

Considering the industrial-scale corruption of the CFMEU in Victoria, it is hard to think similar behaviour is not occurring in other states, even if it is not as rampant. But even if it is limited to Victoria, Watson identified it isn't just a problem for Victorians.

At a public hearing, he recently said he was "especially hurt when (he) found out that a lot of these projects were being partially funded by the federal government". He said "the people who were benefiting from this were criminals". Yet when the government has been asked to audit how much of our taxes found its way to corruption, they've turned a blind eye.

In two programs alone, that could be at least $20bn-$35bn saved simply by taking an interest in turning off the corruption tap. And that doesn't cover corruption in illegal tobacco, childcare and many other public services.

Stopping this corruption isn't the government's plan. Instead they think it is easier to introduce new taxes to fund it. Based on Chalmers' proposals, Australians look set to pay at least $12bn more after the coming budget.

These proposals are conservatively estimated to include a $7bn housing tax, $2bn to increase income tax and $3bn for a new family savings tax. These tax proposals were not taken to an election. And they won't even cover the $20bn-$35bn in known public money that has flown to corruption.

It is clearly easier for the Albanese government to say "yes" to new taxes on you than it is to say "no" to corruption by a cartel of Labor and the CFMEU.