[Leon Della Bosca]

We’d love to hear what you have to say about the May 2023 Federal Budget.

Was enough done to make life a little easier for you? Was there enough attention paid to other areas of concern, such as the environment, taxation, etc? Will your family be better off or worse? Where could money be better spent?

Let’s get the conversation going!

[45er]

A lot of good social spending.
However the energy subsidy is a smoke and mirror exercise. All Governments have put higher taxes on energy forcing prices up for fuel and power, which in turn forces the prices for everything up creating inflationary pressures across the whole economy.
They then tax us further so they can look good by paying us a rebate, why not remove the additional taxes on energy that are in place and reduce inflationary costs pressure.
The current situation is will cause us to be uncompetitive in world market, cause higher higher prices for imports and be even more expensive inflationary.

They have been fortunate enough to this past year to have had higher than expected export earnings from mining.
When you look at the projections they are expecting that situation to reverse and for our debt to increase further.
That means that the interest on the debt is also increasing, and that which cannot go on, we must start paying down our debt, and otherwise Paul Keating’s view that we will become a banana Republic will come true.
There is nothing in the budget for tax breaks for singles, whether living independently (irrespective of age), or single parents.

[shaper]

Once again we in WA have lost out ,almost all the other states get$500 towards their power bills we get $350? Meanwhile its our mining that is paying for a lot of this money they are “Giving Away”.

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