Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

There are in fact 41,242 families in Calwell and each and every one of them will be better off because of the abolition of the carbon tax, and each and every one of them will be hurt by Labor's plan to whack the carbon tax back on. As sure as night follows day, if Labor get re-elected, they will put the carbon tax back on because they love taxes. They love taxes almost as much as they love unsustainable government spending, which is why all of those households and all of the people of Calwell would have been saddled with $25,000 of debt around their neck had the policies of the members opposite been persisted with. I understand that there are measures in the budget that not everyone likes. There is no easy way to tackle the debt and deficit disaster that Labor have saddled this country with, but tackle it we will. It is what we were elected to do.

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