Greens Leader Adam Bandt says Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts for billionaires and the wealthy must be on the agenda at the Jobs and Skills Summit, just as taxation policy was on the agenda at Bob Hawke\u2019s national summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Responding to the release of the summit\u2019s Issues Paper, Mr Bandt said trying to have a discussion about the nation\u2019s economic challenges without mentioning the revenue hole caused by Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts just didn’t make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bob Hawke\u2019s summit sought \u201cto seek broad agreement on the relationship between a successful prices and incomes policy and the implementation of policies on industrial relations, job creation and training, taxation, social security, health, education, and the other major community services\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Bandt said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt seems reversing Stage Three tax cuts is on everyone\u2019s lips except the Treasurer\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Jobs Summit Issues Paper doesn\u2019t use the word tax once.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt this summit, Labor\u2019s giant Stage 3 tax cuts for billionaires and the wealthy will be the elephant in the room and the Treasurer will need stage curtains to hide it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBob Hawke understood that you can\u2019t discuss workers’ wellbeing without discussing taxation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe can\u2019t talk about tackling the wages and skills crisis without talking about the income inequality and restriction on government spending that the unfair Stage 3 tax cuts will cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor is spending $224b on Stage 3 tax cuts to the wealthy, but that amount of money could deliver immediate cost of living relief and make workers’ lives better by making childcare free, getting dental into Medicare and helping build 1 million affordable homes instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens will attend the government\u2019s Jobs Summit to gain support for our plans to stop the Stage 3 tax cuts and invest in services instead to make people\u2019s lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greens Leader Adam Bandt says Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts for billionaires and the wealthy must be on the agenda at the Jobs and Skills Summit, just as taxation policy was on the agenda at Bob Hawke\u2019s national summit. Responding to the release of the summit\u2019s Issues Paper, Mr Bandt said trying to have a … Continue reading “Tax must be on Jobs Summit agenda: Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17934,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933\/revisions\/17934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}