Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

of fiscal budget repair—of getting government expenditure under control. So what do they do? They say, 'Don't worry about expenditure, just lift taxes on all Australians.' They say to lift taxes on police officers—one in five police officers use negative gearing just to ensure that they can build up a nest egg for their financial futures—or the nurses or the teachers or the Defence Force personnel. Those opposite say: 'No, we're not going to get expenditure under control. What we're going to do is jack up taxes on ordinary Australians.' Today, in this parliament, this government relieved taxes for ordinary, hardworking Australians. What we want to do is the same thing for the small businesses who employ them, and those opposite oppose it.

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