Charge asylum seekers $50,000 to come here, says incoming senator Compassion for a fee: David Leyonhjelm wants to charge asylum seekers $50,000 for entry into Australia. Mr Leyonhjelm also confirmed his party would oppose the Coalition's paid parental leave scheme because it takes money from people without children to give to those with kids. But he said he could be persuaded to support the $5.5 billion-a-year plan if it came with the trade off of dropping the company tax rate to 20 per cent. "We're a small government party so any of those big spending grand ideas that involve spending other people's money, we'll oppose those," Mr Leyonhjelm told Sky News on Sunday. A net reduction in the tax burden would be what I'm looking for. The Coalition's six-month wage-replacement leave scheme will be partly funded by a 1.5 per cent levy on about 3000 large businesses. To compensate, the coalition plans to drop the tax rate for all companies by 1.5 points to 28.5 per cent. "Paid parental leave is bad in principle," Mr Leyonhjelm said.