Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

There is no doubt that the continuing downgrades in world economic growth and volatilities in equity markets, currency markets and commodity markets have had an impact on business and consumer confidence. But I say this: our economic plan is the best friend of Australian consumers because we get rid of Labor taxes. We got rid of the carbon tax, the mining tax, the bank deposit tax. We got rid of the Leader of the Opposition's piggybank tax. We have gotten rid of the taxes. We have given Australians tax cuts. But most importantly, we are seeing four times the number of jobs created every month as occurred in the last year of Labor.

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