Quote Originally Posted by dohdoe View Post



You can see quite clearly that this is a no broken promises budget. Remember its a damn levy not a tax. No not the same thing because even though they are both collected by tax office. I'm not going to get into the semantics of it all.
John Howard said today that Abbott cutting the family tax benefit amounts to a tax increase because it's not welfare it's a tax cut.
He seemed quite disappointed in his protégés first budget.