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Is this year's Budget 'tough but fair'? Wayne Swan promised a tough budget, but a fair one for all Australians. Do you agree?
YOUR SAY Is this year's Budget 'tough but fair'? Wayne Swan promised a tough budget, but a fair one for all Australians. Do you agree?
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Let me see labor will let in 300,000 immigrants a year so all the people getting educated wont be even able to get a job when they finish ,they should look at what happened in the uk,nz ,france,south africa ,its just stupid policy like the mob who are in now mthat why things are going up
Election promises eh? funny i dont remember him saying anything about raising taxes ,and truthman is right why did they block the bbc from getting the awa document that proves they lied ,with the excuse it would cause to much debate ,well thats not transparent is it? and if they lied they should pay ,funny eneough not 1 person has rushed in to get off awa not the response they were hoping for and proves they were scare tactics and lies .now the budget ,petrol still going up ,groceries up,rents up, medi will be too ,all in all they have done nothing they promised at all and just added taxes ,lying scum .
The only thing i can see they have done is as usual more taxes and cutting some very important schemes which is stupid ,is that what they call managing? its a joke,and the fallout from the medicre will be horrendous
If this is the best this bunch of morons can do then its a discrace ,alco pops tax,medi kaos ,what a bunch of losers do they even know what a budget is?i dont think so .
We hear the hyp of the working family, but you never hear the single female and male. They are the ones who miss out on all budgets. The family for many years has had the tax relief but the single tax payer has been discriminated but govts since the Paul Keating Days
No I believe the pensioners have been given a raw deal
What about single pensioners? Wayne Swan has admitted he could not live on it and yet he expects others to do so. Stop giving millions overseas and start giving to deserving Australians - homeless, pensioners, disability people etc.
People whinging about "taxing the rich". Now that the budget favours us poor low income bastards its suddenly a bad thing?! Luxury car tax? Dont drive a bmw. No baby bonus if you earn over 150k? Learn to save better. Its a fairly good budget; not a great one, but its a damn good start. Although WA's $300 million waterfront project is a joke. I'm a hospital worker, and believe me our patients would much prefer it spent here than on a replica venice that will sink twice as fast as the real one.
Well they havent said much about their green scam taxes but they are coming and when they do they will lose voters in droves just like in the uk,tax is one thing but scamming is just dishonest and whats worse they know it too ,just like their lies on the awa document they wont release so much for transparency ,lies are lies and labor is the king in that reguard in all states too,
Well the beagle boys have stashed part of the loot 20,billion now they just have to work out how to get hold of it !just look at their record its horrendous !these clowns cant get anything right even though they have everyone who is not in gov on the job