Stop always looking to hit the poor, the weak, the vulnerable. Stop telling us there is no choice – we know better. TONY ABBOTT has delivered a strong message to colleagues pushing for a change in the GST: it won’t be happening anytime soon. Speaking in the Middle East, the Prime Minister insisted there “will be no changes to the GST in the first term of the Coalition Government” and there are currently “no plans” to tinker with it. This was eerily reminiscent of his comments in February about a GP co-payment “Nothing is being considered; nothing has been proposed; nothing is planned,” Abbott said. “I think I have knocked the scare campaign on the head. This is all the Labor party has got. Nationally or locally all they’ve got is a scare campaign and I think that the people of Griffith and the people of Australia are bigger than that.” It seems apparent that we are being prepared for a change to the GST. Whether it will be increased, or the base broadened, or both, remains to be seen but it is coming, regardless of Tony Abbott’s assurances of “there will be no change to the GST.” We know how much his word is worth. theaimn/no-changes-gst-trust/
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 08:23:51 +0000
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