In response to a simple question from the Greens Member for Brisbane during Question Time – \u201cHow are Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts actually good for the economy?\u201d – the Treasurer today failed to outline even one economic benefit of the tax cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens MP for Brisbane, Stephen Bates said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Treasurer can\u2019t make even one argument in favour of Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Treasurer has just confirmed Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts deliver no benefit to the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor is spending $243b on tax cuts for the wealthy without offering even one argument in support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s a massively expensive exercise that not even the government can justify. Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts must be axed now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInstead of giving tax cuts to billionaires and the wealthy, Labor should spend this money providing cost of living relief by getting dental and mental health into Medicare and wiping student debt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In response to a simple question from the Greens Member for Brisbane during Question Time – \u201cHow are Labor\u2019s Stage 3 tax cuts actually good for the economy?\u201d – the Treasurer today failed to outline even one economic benefit of the tax cuts. Greens MP for Brisbane, Stephen Bates said: \u201cThe Treasurer can\u2019t make even … Continue reading “Treasurer fails to defend Stage 3 tax cuts”<\/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-18104","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\/18104","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=18104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18105,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18104\/revisions\/18105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}