Greens Treasury spokesperson Senator Nick McKim has accepted Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ challenge for a debate on the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Chalmers has challenged shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor to a debate, which would be an absolute snorefest as they are in lockstep on the big issues,\u201d Senator McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Taylor has gone quiet so the Treasurer now has a chance to debate someone who will actually disagree with him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe should debate the Greens so some of the big challenges and opportunities in our economy get the exposure they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Treasurer has had three years and is still failing to make billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share of tax.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf he were prepared to take these obvious steps to increase revenue he could fund genuine legacy-defining reforms like putting dental and mental health into medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s had three years and is still giving wealthy property speculators massive tax handouts so they can outbid renters trying to buy their first home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s had three years and has failed to introduce economy-wide divestiture powers to increase competition and bring prices down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNeoliberalism needs to be challenged, which won\u2019t happen unless the Greens are involved.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Chalmers\u2019 first term as Treasurer has been a litany of missed opportunities and he needs to be held to account. Mr Taylor won’t do that but the Greens certainly will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens Treasury spokesperson Senator Nick McKim has accepted Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ challenge for a debate on the economy. \u201cMr Chalmers has challenged shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor to a debate, which would be an absolute snorefest as they are in lockstep on the big issues,\u201d Senator McKim said. \u201cMr Taylor has gone quiet so the Treasurer … Continue reading “McKim accepts Chalmers’ debate challenge”<\/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-31677","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\/31677","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=31677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31678,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31677\/revisions\/31678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}