{"id":31496,"date":"2025-02-20T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=31496"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:38:01","slug":"labor-wouldnt-have-to-cut-public-services-if-they-reviewed-revenue-and-taxed-the-big-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/labor-wouldnt-have-to-cut-public-services-if-they-reviewed-revenue-and-taxed-the-big-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR WOULDN\u2019T HAVE TO CUT PUBLIC SERVICES IF THEY REVIEWED REVENUE AND TAXED THE BIG BANKS\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Victorian Greens say that Labor would not need to cut public service that people rely on if the Government properly taxed the big banks and corporations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes as the Allan government announces that up to 3,000 public jobs could be on the chopping block following a major review into the public sector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Victorian Greens say that it\u2019s essential that our public services are properly resourced to ensure they\u2019re operating as effectively and efficiently as possible and that services Victorians need shouldn\u2019t be compromised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Victorian Greens spokesperson for Economic Justice, Aiv Puglielli said that we wouldn\u2019t need to sacrifice the efficiency of our public services and no one would have to lose their jobs if Labor implemented the Greens plan to put a levy on the big banks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Victorian Greens spokesperson for Economic Justice, Aiv Puglielli:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor should be ensuring the big banks pay their fair share of tax, rather than cutting public services that people rely on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s reasonable that one big bank can rake in over $5 billion in profits in just six months while 3,000 public sector workers have their jobs on the chopping block.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victorian Greens say that Labor would not need to cut public service that people rely on if the Government properly taxed the big banks and corporations.&nbsp; It comes as the Allan government announces that up to 3,000 public jobs could be on the chopping block following a major review into the public sector.&nbsp; The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/labor-wouldnt-have-to-cut-public-services-if-they-reviewed-revenue-and-taxed-the-big-banks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR WOULDN\u2019T HAVE TO CUT PUBLIC SERVICES IF THEY REVIEWED REVENUE AND TAXED THE BIG BANKS\u00a0&#8220;<\/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-31496","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\/31496","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=31496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31497,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496\/revisions\/31497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}