Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

No, it is not Labor, and you should know better. In Budget Paper No. 1, ‘Tax as a share of GDP’, in mid-2000, the figures are 24.9, 24.9, 24.6 and 24.6. Under us, it is 22. So, if you want to find a party that is interested in reducing taxes as a share of GDP, as we have done, go to the Labor Party, but if you want to go to the highest-taxing government in Australia’s history that is the coalition—the world champion taxers.

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