Albo giveth, Albo taketh away

Had to go out shopping today—one of those rare occasions when I actually leave the house these days—cos I needed to get my pills for the next month, and while the pharmacist was filling my scripts I went up to the newsagent to browse for a few minutes. Which meant I was brought into close contact with this:

Ugh. It’s always bad enough just seeing these cunts’ stuff online; having to physically share a space with it, though, is even less pleasant. But what are they whining about, anyway? I was dimly aware of it being to do with these tax cuts, but what had Albo actually done? Well, I turned to the Graun when I got home:

Australians earning less than $150,000 are set to benefit from changes to the stage-three tax cuts package from July, after federal cabinet approved plans to change the tax code. This includes those earning less than $45,000, who were set to miss out under the stage-three tax cuts legislated under the previous Coalition government.
Those earning between $50,000 and $130,000 will see the biggest benefit from the reported changes, according to modelling by Assoc Prof Ben Phillips at the Australian National University. Those earning above $150,000 will see a smaller tax cut than they otherwise would have. Australians earning less than $45,000 were not set to get a tax cut in July but now will. […]
All Australians will get a tax cut, but for many on higher incomes it will be a smaller tax cut than they were expecting.
The Morrison government’s stage-three tax cuts passed parliament in 2019, and Labor committed to keep them in the last election. This removed the 37% tax bracket for those earning between $120,000 and 180,000, increased the top tax bracket from $180,000 to $200,000, and lowered the 32.5% marginal tax rate to 30%.
The stage-three tax cuts predominantly benefited those on higher incomes. But the changes passed by the federal cabinet will see the distribution change, with households on middle incomes the biggest beneficiaries according to ANU modelling.

So, as I see it, the issue is that Albo is going ahead with the tax cuts as he said he would, but he altered the deal, as they say in the classics, so people making above $150k won’t get as big of a cut as the Liberals were going to give them, but people making under $45k will now get a cut the Libs weren’t going to give them at all… Oh. OH. I think I see the problem now. It’s THE POORS being given something at the expense of people who can afford to live without that thing anyway. No wonder the Daily Xenophobe is worked up. And that cunt from Queensland thinks Albo should go to an election on the matter?

Dutts: “Hey, we’re the Liberals and we promised tax cuts for our rich friends which Albo is fucking with, vote for us!”
THE POORS: “You mean the same Albo who’s giving us tax cuts you weren’t going to give us? Get fucked, you potato-faced turd.”
Dutts: “…Well, shit.”

Yeah, not that Albo’s going to do it anyway, but I can’t see Dutton actually pulling such a stunt off somehow.