Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Greens find $88billion in savings - better than Sloppy Joe's

Of course big business won't like their plan. All that clean energy undercutting Rineheart's coal bazillions. I can almost hear her screaming now at the very suggestion, all the way from Queensland. In any case, these are the savings the Greens have found instead of clobbering the poor. You can sign a petition asking the senate to call on the Treasurer to stop the free ride for the big end of town here
If we 

Abolish tax breaks for Big Mining, raising $12.8 billion 

Retain the price on pollution, raising $18 billion 

Implement the original super profits tax on Big Mining, raising $35.5 billion 

Impose a $2 per tonne levy on thermal coal exports, raising $1.7 billion 

Reduce tax avoidance by taxing discretionary trusts (excepting farmers) the same as corporations, raising $3.6 billion 

Implement a Millionaires Tax on incomes over $1 million, raising $637 million 

Apply a public insurance levy on the Big Four Banks that are 'too big to fail', raising $16.8 billion 

we can raise over $88 billion dollars. Instead, Joe Hockey has chosen to make the lives of everyday Australians even harder by enforcing a $7 fee to visit the doctor, increasing university fees, punishing people who are trying to find jobs, and making cruel and brutal cuts. sign petition here
Looks to me like the Greens have been in the bunker for a bit and have now come out all guns a firing. 

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