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The nation of Australia has today responded to a cheeky a little political play.
Speaking exclusively to The Advocate from a Betoota Industrial Park cafe van, a spokesperson for the nation said they have no issues with ‘Treasury’s new and damning’ advice.
“Yeah no dramas with me,” said Ashley Windhorst.
“I’ve got plenty of suggestions on how we can balance the budget.”
Windhorst’s comments as national spokesperson on the issue follow the ‘accidental leaking’ of Treasury advice to the ‘incoming government.’
While the advice is often given to journalists through Freedom Of Information requests, the completely un-redacted leak has been described as unusual.
The extremely ‘unlucky’ leaked advice told Treasurer Jim Chalmers taxes “would need to be raised” and spending reduced if the federal budget was to be sustainable.
Definitely not a deliberate play to forewarn the nation that the government have no choice but to cut spending and raise taxes, it’s yet to be revealed how the leak was sent to the ABC.
The advice also contains a hammer blow to the government’s 1.2 million homes policy, claiming that it won’t be achievable.
Responding to that leak, and the looming announcements that spending will have to be cut and taxes will have to go up – spokesperson Ashley offered some advice.
“Yeah no worries, let’s put up tax on the giant multinational companies ripping our resources out of the ground and paying a tiny fraction of the profits to the government in tax,” he laughed.
“Or let’s actually clamp down on the giant consulting firms helping large companies dodge 10s of billions of dollars worth of taxes every year.”
“And on the issue of cutting spending, rather than slashing our already bleeding our sectors like health, education and social security – let’s look at Negative Gearing and Capital Gains Tax Concessions.”
“We can shave 10s of billy off the budget just like that.”
“And maybe we can lose a sub or two…”
“Easy as.”
“Sorted.”
