Re: Swann's pulled a con
Vote out Brendan Nelson
> http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,25479,23694823-14327,00.html
>
> OPPOSITION treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has blasted the federal
> Budget as an economic con.
>
> Treasurer Wayne Swan tonight handed down Labor's first federal budget
> in 13 years, announcing a record $21.7 billion surplus, three new
> future investment funds and almost $47 billion in tax cuts.
>
> But it also increased taxes on luxury cars and some alcoholic drinks,
> tightened fringe benefits tax rules and introduced a means test on the
> baby bonus and family tax benefit B.
>
> Mr Turnbull said it was a high taxing, high spending old-fashioned
> Labor budget.
>
> New taxes to raise the cost of alcohol, cars, health insurance and
> energy would add to inflationary pressures, he said.
>
> "This is a typical Labor budget. It is not new leadership but old
> Labor,'' Mr Turnbull said in a statement.
>
> "It is the first budget in years to introduce new taxes.
>
> "Far from being a new excursion into economic conservatism, Mr Swan's
> first budget is an economic con.''
>
> He disputed Mr Swan's claim that he had cut spending, saying spending
> would go up by $3 billion in this financial year alone.
>
> "The Rudd government's first budget is not an inflation fighting
> budget,'' Mr Turnbull said.
>
> "It is not a budget that lifts a finger to help Australians battling
> with rising costs of living - petrol, groceries, private health
> insurance and home interest rates.''
>
> Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson said the budget was not anti-
> inflationary and is typical Labor, jacking up taxes for people it
> dislikes.
>
> Dr Nelson said government was budgeting for 134,000 people to lose
> their jobs over the next year.
> "This is a typical high taxing, high spending budget, which targets
> people that it doesn't like,'' Dr Nelson told reporters.
>
> The budget did nothing to help families struggling to pay their
> mortgages, feed their children and put petrol in their cars, he said.
>
> Dr Nelson said the budget boosted taxes by $19 billion over the next
> five years and increased spending by $34 billion.
>
> "This is not an anti-inflationary budget,'' he said.
It's only the beginning in snuffing out those rich bastards and their
perks.
fasgnadh
> http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,25479,23694823-14327,00.html
>
> OPPOSITION treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has blasted the federal
> Budget
"Not enough NON CORE promise breaking" B^D
"I said last week they mustn't cut too deep, and damn it,
they didn't cut too deep. What can I say now?"
> Treasurer Wayne Swan tonight handed down Labor's first federal budget
> in 13 years, announcing a record $21.7 billion surplus,
No wonder the tories are weeping and LYING for all they are worth! B^D
> three new future investment funds and almost $47 billion in tax cuts.
>
No wonder the tories are weeping and LYING for all they are worth! B^D
> But it also increased taxes on luxury cars and some alcoholic drinks,
No wonder the tories are weeping and LYING for all they are worth! B^D
> tightened fringe benefits tax rules and introduced a means test on the
> baby bonus and family tax benefit B.
No wonder the tories are weeping and LYING for all they are worth! B^D
> Mr Turnbull said it was a high taxing, high spending old-fashioned
> Labor budget.
Except that the spending is on INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT, something
Malcolm apparently can't spell! B^D
Unlike the tory governments funnelling of transfer payments to
the economic elites.. a baby bonus for Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch,
we have inflation reducing NATION BUILDING, and PROMISES KEPT!
No wonder the tories are weeping and LYING for all they are worth! B^D
> New taxes to raise the cost of alcohol, cars,
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAA!
100,000 lucury cars have a tax increase of 5% over the 25% tory tax
and Turnbull, whose Lieberals introduced an 11% tax on everything,
which was regressive (hit the poor hardest) and went up AUTOMATICALLY
with the inflation his government left us with, calls the ALP "HIGH TAXING"!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA
That is what we won't miss from the tories their LYING - "NON-CORE
PROMISES" "WMD's THREATEN US ALL" "WE WILL KEEP INTEREST RATES AT
RECORD LOWS"
This government has KEPT IT'S PROMISES! B^
No wonder the tories are weeping and LYING for all they are worth! B^D
>
> Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson said the budget was not anti-
> inflationary and is typical Labor, jacking up taxes for people it
> dislikes.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!
Billions in tax CUTS to ordinary Australians and the LIEberals
call it 'jacking up taxes'
The tories are a FUCKING JOKE!
No wonder the tories are weeping and LYING for all they are worth! B^D
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fasgnadh <fasg...@yahoo.com> typed:
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> 100,000 lucury cars have a tax increase of 5% over the 25% tory tax
> and Turnbull, whose Lieberals introduced an 11% tax on everything,
> which was regressive (hit the poor hardest) and went up AUTOMATICALLY
> with the inflation his government left us with, calls the ALP "HIGH
> TAXING"!
Not the best argument, since all the current governments in Australia fully
support the GST, and there is no prospect of dismantling it. The GST is one
of the good things introduced by the conservatives, and is quarantined
against any serious changes in the tax review.
Polly the Parrot
<vo...@out.com> wrote:
> > "This is not an anti-inflationary budget,'' he said.
> It's only the beginning in snuffing out those rich bastards and their
> perks.
You will never snuff us out, you working class git.
Now get in the queue, where you belong, and beg for work.
DBDriver
> Sir John Howard wrote:
> It's only the beginning in snuffing out those rich bastards and their
> perks.
Yeah - that would be the people who pay the wages. Didn't the Soviet
Union have a similar approach? That really worked.
Thank god the gov has a more mainstream focus than some.
Rj.
Sir John Howard
How'd you know he was on the dole? ;)
fasgnadh
>> and Turnbull, whose Lieberals introduced an 11% tax on everything,
>> which was regressive (hit the poor hardest) and went up AUTOMATICALLY
>> with the inflation his government left us with, calls the ALP "HIGH
>> TAXING"!
>>
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> Not the best argument, since all the current governments
> in Australia fully support the GST, and there is no
> prospect of dismantling it.
You don't seem to have quite understood the argument, it was that
the tories look particularly weak trying to beat up the trivial
luxury tax rise on a few cars, raising a few thousands of dollars,
when they were responsible for the GST, raising tens of billions
each year AND this byudget contains delivery on a PROMISE(something
Howard couldn't even spell ;-) of $46.7 billion in TAX CUTS!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAA
> The GST is one of the good things introduced
> by the conservatives, and is quarantined
> against any serious changes in the tax review.
Oh there is no doubt it raises buckets and buckets of revenue,
governments of all persuasion love the way it keeps growing,
without the opprobrium of announcing tax increases, automatically
indexed for inflation, keeping them awash in dollars,
even if the poor, the pensioners and those on fixed incomes
'capacity to pay' does not increase at the same rate!
It's a regressive tax, good for governments, and the ALP is just as
greedy for mammoth surpluses as the tories, but not for the people.
The argument, which you have overlooked to focus only on an aside,
is that the most significant difference is that this government has
KEPT ITS PROMISES, not duped the electorate with 'non-core' lies.
Oh, BTW, I trimmed 'alt.fuckwits', if you want to keep in touch
with your family, friends and workmates at tory central, send them
an email! B^D