Responding to Labor\u2019s reheated Stage 3 tax cuts announcements, the Greens – who have opposed the Stage 3 tax cuts package since their inception – have said Labor has failed to deliver fairness for low and middle income earners and that the Greens would fight for further changes to the package. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn a housing and cost of living crisis, Labor\u2019s offering people on middle incomes an extra $15 a week while giving $4,500 a year to politicians and billionaires. Is that really the best Labor can do in a housing, rental and cost of living crisis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor\u2019s giving the very wealthy three times as much as the average wage earner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens have kept up the pressure on Labor\u2019s unfair original tax plan from day one, and as this legislation works its way through Parliament, the Greens will fight for more for low and middle income earners who are struggling under Labor\u2019s housing and rental crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhy is Labor expecting people to be happy with an additional $15 a week, when rents have gone up by about $100 a week under Labor’s housing and rental crisis and mortgages almost $200 a week?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor claims there\u2019s only $15 a week extra for middle Australia, no money to raise the rate of Centrelink and no money to get dental and mental health into Medicare, while forging ahead with a $4500 tax cut for every billionaire and politician.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Responding to Labor\u2019s reheated Stage 3 tax cuts announcements, the Greens – who have opposed the Stage 3 tax cuts package since their inception – have said Labor has failed to deliver fairness for low and middle income earners and that the Greens would fight for further changes to the package. Greens Leader Adam Bandt … Continue reading “THREE TIMES THE AVERAGE WAGE EARNER\u2019S TAX CUT GOING TO BILLIONAIRES, CEOS AND POLITICIANS: 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-24936","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\/24936","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=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24937,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions\/24937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}