The right wing is still malding over Albo modifying their precious tax cuts, but David Shittleproud is really being silly about it:
An income of $190,000 is “not a lot in this day and age” the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has claimed while criticising Labor’s tax changes which are set to benefit working-class and regional areas. […]
On Monday Guardian Australia published an analysis by the Australian National University associate professor Ben Phillips finding that working-class communities in Coalition-held remote and regional electorates stand to gain the most, including Leichhardt, Forde and Herbert in Queensland.
The average taxpayer in Whitsunday, in the electorate of Dawson, East Pilbara in Durack, and Cairns in Leichhardt stands to gain over $600 more from Labor’s package than the Morrison government’s stage-three tax cuts. In Littleproud’s seat the average taxpayer in the Darling Downs (west) and Maranoa area will receive $595.
Asked on Monday about that local impact, Littleproud told Sky News that “those people in my electorate, many of which who are on much of the lower end of the scale in wages, did already get a tax cut”.
Littleproud cited the Coalition’s earlier two stages of tax cuts, explaining the third stage was about the “aspiration” of families including “tradies, who have kids at school and mums at home looking after some of the kids”.
“They’re getting caught up in this and it’s all relative,” he said. “Their mortgages are still up there.”
“Their cost of living’s still there and they’re only on $180,000, $190,000. And that’s still not a lot in this day and age.”
The Graun writer then goes on to note that if you’re making more than $180k per annum, that puts you in the top four percent of all earners in this country. I make under $30k each year on my pension, for what it’s worth, and I only do as well as I do because I was able to build up savings for years before needing it (folks never charged me rent or anything for living at home, which was handy). But they’re the ones not making much, not me. This really is just about conservatives hating poor people, isn’t it? Even poor people in their own electorates who voted for them and who’ll be better off because of the ALP. Great vote-winning there, David.
