Post by juliar on May 5th, 2016 at 10:24am
Australia needs to be saved from these pathetic Union hacks trying to convert this Country into a socialist failed state with high debt, mediocre people depending on welfare, low productivity and a corrupt driven government of the incompetent Union class.
Where was the class divide when you were negotiating for Cleanevent and the mushroom farm workers eh BS??
Shorten has confirmed that he and Labor have no positive plan for this country. They're wreckers, characterised by their standard playing the man tactic. Turnbull is absolutely correct - Labor's philosophy is to sneer at aspiration - unless you're a union exec of course!
The trouble with a Shorten Government is that eventually it would run out of everybody else's money.
Shorty and his corrupt union bosses look after themselves first and forget the workers
Federal election 2016: Labor lays bare class warfare campaign
Dennis Shanahan Political Editor Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN MAY 5, 2016 1:04AM
After months of subliminal sneers about Malcolm Turnbull’s personal wealth making it impossible for him to understand ordinary taxpayers, Labor has laid bare a campaign of class warfare in its response to the budget.
Two weeks ago Bill Shorten labelled the Prime Minister a “rich man’s Tony Abbott” in a double sledge at his wealth and continuance of 2014 budget cuts.
Labor intends to use Turnbull’s experience as a merchant banker and status as a multi-millionaire to brand him as defending the rich and being out of touch, and his first budget as unfair. Yesterday the Opposition Leader’s first two questions in parliament were not about the budget but bounced off comments Turnbull had made on ABC radio about wealthy parents “shelling out” to help their children buy a home. “Is that really the Prime Minister’s advice for young Australians struggling to buy their first home? Have rich parents?” Shorten said.
Earlier Shorten and Chris Bowen described the budget as unfair because it failed to give tax relief to 75 per cent of wage earners and was only good for “millionaires” and “billion-dollar companies”.
Earlier Melbourne ABC radio host Jon Faine suggested Turnbull had ordered his financial affairs to avoid tax. Turnbull replied it was “unworthy” innuendo and he had “always paid a lot of tax”.
“I am very conservative in the managing of my tax affairs, I can assure you, and the innuendo you made there is unworthy,” the Prime Minister said.
Shorten further pursued the comments Turnbull made on the program about wealthy parents buying homes for their children by asking: “Can the Prime Minister confirm that in the past two weeks his advice to young Australians struggling to buy their first home is to have rich parents or to have parents who buy you a home when you turn one? Prime Minister, just how out of touch are you?”
Realising Labor’s basic attack would be over fairness and the lack of tax relief for those earning under $80,000 while those earning more — including MPs — would get $6 a week, Turnbull tried to deflate the attacks on him and the budget by declaring Labor was using the politics of envy.
“Labor is setting itself up for a war on business; they are setting themselves up for some kind of class war,” he told ABC Radio National. “They are arguing that people who earn $80,000 a year are rich. Labor doesn’t want them to benefit from a tax cut. Labor presumably would like them to go into the second-top tax bracket. Now that’s the type of war of envy, the politics of envy, which absolutely stands in the way of aspiration and enterprise and growth.”
After being asked twice in parliament about being out of touch, Turnbull picked up his earlier theme and said Labor was “sneering at aspiration” and conducting “a political war they wanted to foment against aspiration”.
Scott Morrison also warned of Labor’s politics of envy and took an on-air shot at Shorten on the Nine Network when Shorten said to the Treasurer: “I guess it’s never been a more exciting time to be a millionaire”.
Morrison replied: “You’d know all about that Bill, you’ve got plenty of mates in that category”.
The class warfare tactic from Labor is not new although personalising it to Turnbull adds a new dimension.
In 2005, Kim Beazley opposed tax changes that gave MPs a $65 a week tax cut while “the men and women who clean their offices get just $6 a week.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/budget-2016/opinion/federal-election-2016-labor-lays-bare-class-warfare-campaign/news-story/78cd4057a45cb250f9c22465f7179170
Where was the class divide when you were negotiating for Cleanevent and the mushroom farm workers eh BS??
Shorten has confirmed that he and Labor have no positive plan for this country. They're wreckers, characterised by their standard playing the man tactic. Turnbull is absolutely correct - Labor's philosophy is to sneer at aspiration - unless you're a union exec of course!
The trouble with a Shorten Government is that eventually it would run out of everybody else's money.
Shorty and his corrupt union bosses look after themselves first and forget the workers
Federal election 2016: Labor lays bare class warfare campaign
Dennis Shanahan Political Editor Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN MAY 5, 2016 1:04AM
After months of subliminal sneers about Malcolm Turnbull’s personal wealth making it impossible for him to understand ordinary taxpayers, Labor has laid bare a campaign of class warfare in its response to the budget.
Two weeks ago Bill Shorten labelled the Prime Minister a “rich man’s Tony Abbott” in a double sledge at his wealth and continuance of 2014 budget cuts.
Labor intends to use Turnbull’s experience as a merchant banker and status as a multi-millionaire to brand him as defending the rich and being out of touch, and his first budget as unfair. Yesterday the Opposition Leader’s first two questions in parliament were not about the budget but bounced off comments Turnbull had made on ABC radio about wealthy parents “shelling out” to help their children buy a home. “Is that really the Prime Minister’s advice for young Australians struggling to buy their first home? Have rich parents?” Shorten said.
Earlier Shorten and Chris Bowen described the budget as unfair because it failed to give tax relief to 75 per cent of wage earners and was only good for “millionaires” and “billion-dollar companies”.
Earlier Melbourne ABC radio host Jon Faine suggested Turnbull had ordered his financial affairs to avoid tax. Turnbull replied it was “unworthy” innuendo and he had “always paid a lot of tax”.
“I am very conservative in the managing of my tax affairs, I can assure you, and the innuendo you made there is unworthy,” the Prime Minister said.
Shorten further pursued the comments Turnbull made on the program about wealthy parents buying homes for their children by asking: “Can the Prime Minister confirm that in the past two weeks his advice to young Australians struggling to buy their first home is to have rich parents or to have parents who buy you a home when you turn one? Prime Minister, just how out of touch are you?”
Realising Labor’s basic attack would be over fairness and the lack of tax relief for those earning under $80,000 while those earning more — including MPs — would get $6 a week, Turnbull tried to deflate the attacks on him and the budget by declaring Labor was using the politics of envy.
“Labor is setting itself up for a war on business; they are setting themselves up for some kind of class war,” he told ABC Radio National. “They are arguing that people who earn $80,000 a year are rich. Labor doesn’t want them to benefit from a tax cut. Labor presumably would like them to go into the second-top tax bracket. Now that’s the type of war of envy, the politics of envy, which absolutely stands in the way of aspiration and enterprise and growth.”
After being asked twice in parliament about being out of touch, Turnbull picked up his earlier theme and said Labor was “sneering at aspiration” and conducting “a political war they wanted to foment against aspiration”.
Scott Morrison also warned of Labor’s politics of envy and took an on-air shot at Shorten on the Nine Network when Shorten said to the Treasurer: “I guess it’s never been a more exciting time to be a millionaire”.
Morrison replied: “You’d know all about that Bill, you’ve got plenty of mates in that category”.
The class warfare tactic from Labor is not new although personalising it to Turnbull adds a new dimension.
In 2005, Kim Beazley opposed tax changes that gave MPs a $65 a week tax cut while “the men and women who clean their offices get just $6 a week.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/budget-2016/opinion/federal-election-2016-labor-lays-bare-class-warfare-campaign/news-story/78cd4057a45cb250f9c22465f7179170
