Every man and his dog knows that basically a federal budget is calculated to cover operations over one financial year and this year the 2011-12 budget handed down tonight will be no different.
So why on earth was Opposition Leader Tony Abbott rabbiting on like this yesterday:
“Now, obviously tomorrow night is the budget night. All the indications are that this will be a budget with a hole in its heart because it won’t include the carbon tax, even though the carbon tax is at least the biggest tax change since the GST. I say to the Government it is not too late to pulp the document and to reproduce it with the carbon tax in it, because let’s face it the Treasury has done the modelling and it could be and should be included, and without the carbon tax in it this budget will not be worth the paper that it is printed on. It will be a completely misleading and incomplete document.”
Carbon pricing is not due to commence until 1 July 2012 at the earliest and therefore falls within the 2012-13 federal budget - there is no "hole" in this year's budget. So either Tones doesn’t understand or he is deliberately telling pork pies.
Tony Abbott lie? Is the Pope a Catholic!
1 comment:
Mr. Abbott is always good at talking about what is not there.
He runs into strife when he has to talk about facts and reality.
He has a fertile imagination that is able to put forwarded the most outlandish propositions and make them sound like the truth.
Sometimes I get the impression he believes his mistruths, misinformation and fairy tales.
That is a worry.
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