All you want them to do is break a promise..
a597,
Isn't that their doctrine ?

The biggest tax bought in the last twenty years was the 10% GST which affects all. Who bought that in?
Flo,
I have a counter question. Where do you think Australia would be without the GST by now ?
have you ever heard of money going round'n round? As far as economical sense is concerned the GST is what saved us from the Labor ruins over the years. Even better would be a flat tax but that at would make so much sense that even the conservatives won't go for it. You reckon the GST affects us all? Of course it does & in a positive way . That's what it was meant to do. If you can state that the GST was not a good economic strategy I'd really like you to bring forward some figures.

Debt and taxes under the ALP?

Then it must be the plundering of public assets, cronyism, promoting internal social unrest and hypocrisy under the LNP.

What a miserable bunch of opportunists they are - putting their own electoral self-interest above the national interest yet again.

Wobbles,

I agree the ALP are a miserable bunch of opportunists putting their own electoral self-interest above the national interest yet again.

With annual tax revenue of nearly $300bn, the repair bill of about $5bn is tiny compared to the $16.2bn squandered on expensive, mostly unneeded buildings.

No one is saying the repairs should not be done. The question is how it is financed. The extra $1.8bn can easily be financed by scrapping some Labor patronage, or some more silly projects.

I see that another idiot is talking about a flat rate tax, aparently going by the newspapers, Peter Costello about fifteen years ago, remarked that he prefferred a 30% flat rate tax. If this had come into being, our workers would all be well and truly up that creek and the rich would be taking billions until all the money, industries and the country would be in the worst depression that has ever been seen. As far as what the taxes are used for, an intelligent pary in power, would not need those extra GST and similar taxes, would not be allowing the destruction of our industries with that resources exporting. Unfortunately not one of our political parties since 1970 have taken notice of the fact that the 66.6% tax by Harold Holt, pulled Australia out of the recession then, and to apply the same now would do the same now, into a profitable era for our economy. It is unfortunate, that some people never grew a brain.

This thread, and a few others is of great worth.
IF we look truly at it and the little man leading the charge Tony Abbott.
See the winging is not from conservatives, they may think of them selves as that but are not.
It shines the spotlight on the lurch away from LIBERAL policy's the party's founder put in place.
Sir Robert[Ming the merciless] Menzies would not for a second plum the depths of brown politics seen here and in Abbott's shadow cabinet.
Those putting the victims first, understanding the nature of Abbott's confrontational ism, should take heart.
This issue, its supporters, may be the very one that unseats him, sends him like lead ballast to some board room,and starts the long march to return Liberal party to,LIBERALISM.
Worth too noting some who contribute here do so from with in a big black hole not seeing hearing or knowing much about the pain.