Memo to Tony Abbott: I'm a working wage slave, not wealthy enough to avoid tax, so I pay every cent of taxation that I'm supposed to.I don't like paying tax, but I understand that it's important, and that it's the means by which this country funds services and programs that are essential to all of our people.
Public spending is not a bad thing.
I do not want your budget cuts; I don't even want a permanently in-the-black budget.
Governments should use to debt to fund essential programs in times of need, just as the Rudd government recently did to get this country through a severe recession that savaged other countries around the world.
The last thing Australia needs now is a bunch of witless, economic zombies cutting into important and progressive programs that may benefit the whole country, all in the name of bringing an unnecessary surplus to the national budget.
Australia is a country, not a business. We're not here to make a profit for the conservative parties to sit on and boast about. Every cent raised from our taxes needs to be re-invested and used to progress the nation, not sit in the Reserve Bank to impress foreign usurers.
Your social and economic policies would bring misery and disgrace to this country, in the same way as your mentors in the Howard government did. Please... go away and spare us all!
I found cutting the infrastructure budget particularly disturbing and odd, because I don't think that will go down well in the marginals.
ReplyDeleteYes, absolutely! New rail lines, faster and cheaper broadband, carbon reduction programs... these things benefit everyone. Julia's 'moving forward' may sound a bit cheesy, but everything Abbott promises to do is backwards and negative. It's scary.
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