A tax is not a tax when your dollar doesn't get wasted by being given to a bureaucrat.

SM welcome back, I see your time away has not improved you mental capacity. <<I personally am not in favour of any deficit levy>> How cute, deficit levy indeed, call it for what it is a Great Big TAX! Well do something about it, vote Green. <<but can well see the point of a short term tax>> hang on, a moment ago it was a levy, now its a tax, make up your mind. What point, if the economy is in such dire circumstance why is the Mad Monk and Co spending like drunken sailors? $24 billion on toys for the boys alone, running up debt at an astronomical rate.
Do you seriously believe these mugs have a clue? I don't recall ever claiming the Carbon Tax was not a tax, then again I'm not a left winger, I'm a progressive. The only one who claims a tax is not a tax is you man Tax'em Tony!

The 'Inquisition' aka 'Commission of Audit' with their idea on who should be forced to pay the price, for Abbott's folly. With Tax'em Tony going full steam ahead with plans to bash the battlers. Here's what you can expect, courtesy of Abbott's Tory business mates.

1. The big one, STATE INCOME TAX.
2. A whack over the head for Pensioners.
3. A kick in the backside for the sick.
4. A punch in the mouth for the young.
5. A poke in the eye for welfare recipients.
5. A uppercut for battling families.
and so on, and so on.

Before the 'Usual Suspects' get all upset. Big Business is in the clear, billionaires are safe, Millionaires will be well looked after.

As Hockey said, the burden must be shared around (amongst the poor and needy).

I see your time away has not improved you mental capacity
Paul1405,
and you are digging the rocky bottom to get yours to no capacity at all. Typical public servant or similar hanger-on industry.
Although I agree with your assertion that those who can least afford it will be hit hard as per usual you don't seem to understand why all this is happening in the first place. It's because of people like you-lefties who have run this country into the ground by way of idealistic ignorance & economic & social ineptitude & selfishness. If you want things to improve YOU need to change mentality not those who have supported you to this day.

individual,

"..... you don't seem to understand why all this is happening in the first place. It's because of people like you-lefties who have run this country into the ground by way of idealistic ignorance & economic & social ineptitude & selfishness."

Ad you don't seem to understand that you are a gullible bunny who swallows Hockey's fakery without question. All they had to do with the help of the media is constantly cry "crisis" and folks like you "who even now" can't glean the monster sitting at the table merrily accept it.

If you can't see by now this lying mob of rogue pollies are out to turn Oz society upside down, starting by squashing the least able underfoot, then there's not much we can do for you.

You have to admit in the least, that they misrepresented themselves and their intentions in order get their foot in the door.
(and don't give me guff that they didn't know the fiscal situation - they did with PEFO)

They dressed up as Granny...and turned out to be the Big Bad Wolf.

Paul,

My absence has allowed YOU mental acuity and memory to slip. Your comment "The only one who claims a tax is not a tax is you man Tax'em Tony!" is wrong in so many ways. Firstly I haven't seen TA nor any liberal claim it was not a tax, and secondly just about every left whinger on this site tried to claim that the carbon tax and ETS were not taxes. So please shelve your BS.

Then just for laughs you and other left whingers appoint yourselves the pompous title of "progressives", which incidentally no one else calls you since your tax and spend policies are legacies from the 60s.

Poirot,

Krudd's stimulus is acknowledged to have been mostly wasted, as the $900 cash splash had little to no stimulus effect, and the spending of the BER fiasco mostly occurred after the GFC peak. The stimulus package was simply an excuse for Labor to ditch any pretence of fiscal responsibility that it promised in 2007.