Lexi,

Do your research. How does a $3bn scheme compare with one that starts at $11bn p.a. and increases every year. I am not a fan of the scheme, but it does not add any input costs to small or big business. Whereas the carbon tax is a direct input cost that reduces competitiveness of every single business.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Nice try to divert.
Read Andrew Bolt's column - he explains
what the costs will be of the Maternity
Leave Scheme to businesses - big and small.
And we are talking about broken promises here
which as you know Mr Abbott promised not to
increase taxes yet on the 7.30 Report he
stated to Kerry O'Brien when quizzed about
the Maternity Leave Scheme - that voters
should not believe every pledge he makes
unless it it written down as the "gospel truth."

As Lindsay Tanner pointed out, "Occassionally
politicians break promises, often driven by
wider circumstances and responsibility, where it
is the responsible thing to do, to change tack."

"But to suggest that somehow, any of us should be
immune from responsibility for things we say
when the vast bulk of political communication is
verbal, whether on radio or on TV I think is
astonishing."

Hear, hear!

cont'd ...

Of course that translates that Mr Abbott's pledges
to "Cut the Tax," and "Stop the Boats,"
are only political ploys to get him elected.
They're verbal - therefore they fit into the
category as he explained on the 7.30 Report of
- "Don't believe everything I say!"
Only scripted promises are "Gospel!"

As I said elsewhere, much of what is being planned by politicians will
have to be abandoned. Money is drying up big time internationally as
well as in Australia.
By this time next year we will have plenty of promises made to us by
the pollies but unless I am very mistaken almost none of them will be implemented.

The austerity measures we are observing in Europe will arrive here.
We are not innocent from the big credit splurge of to last decade.
China has whole cities built and no one buying the 100s thousands
appartments that are up for sale. They have an enormous financial
collapse hanging over their head due to local government lending.

The only solution open to governments is to issue pixel money.
(they no longer print money).
The resultant inflation will devalue their debt.

Did you see the money exchange on SBS last night in Somarlialand ?
The reporter had an arm full of notes worth 18 cents US !
He took away a hundred US dollars worth in a wheelbarrow.

That is where we are heading if we are not very careful.

"Mr Abbott promised not to increase taxes" So what taxes has he increased. I was unaware that the opposition could introduce taxes. This is a change of policy, not a broken promise.

As for repealing the carbon tax and stopping the boats, Abbott not suffering from Labor lack of morals will do it.

just heard on abc
that re state funding's
3 out of every 10 dollars
comes from our power bills

alp state govts
your just too clever by half
then juliar..with her 130 new taxes

lol telling world leaders to do it 'her' way
ie tax your people into early graves...she comes close to that hair lot of the end rhymes..

just a bit more pain wont hurt
and sold..by the only one who might have been better
too clever by half..its a con bet..get rid of two lefties..in one election

too clever by half