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The winds of change are started to still this week, after a hysterical news cycle begins speculating what Prime Minister Albanese’s new tax changes could look like.
From what we know, which is all unannounced, and unverified, the Prime Minister will be stinging the upper-middle class $150k tax bracket by a couple hundred dollars at most.
Those earning $90k receive double what they would’ve under Morrison, and people on $200k will get half.
While it’s not exactly as outrageous as spending $400b tax payer dollars on 8 submarines, the loudest criticism of Albanese’s tax changes is that he had promised there wouldn’t be any.
Unfortunately, with global interest rates spiking and a cost-of-living crisis, the Prime Minister has ruled that circumstances have changed – and that our taxes must change as well.
While the Opposition and Australian media begin loading up their muskets in defence of their own interests, it seems the only visible changes to voter patterns will be taking place in the oceanfront and harbourside electorates.
The fiercely free-thinking teal voters have begun weighing up whether or not it would really be that bad to elect a former Queensland cop who made his name in politics by locking up young children in offshore detention camps and cracking jokes about climate change.
Throughout the week, the once staunch refusal to elect another climate-change denying Liberal Government is softening in the Teal seats, as self interest begins to take over.
While Albanese could probably solve all our nation’s economic woes by taking an Alan Kohler approach to dismantling our manipulated property market, it seems he’s not that keen in sending the wealthiest voters directly in the hands of the Liberal Party.
However, the idea of those earning $150k and upwards paying more tax than they did under Scott Morrison has certainly been enough to mix some some royal blue into the teal.
The Betoota Advocate spoke to one diehard Teal campaigner from Sydney’s harbourside about her current feelings towards the government’s decision to provide relief to the bottom income brackets at the expense of the upper income brackets.
“I mean, with Dutton, yes it’s hard to forgive him for what he did to our Malcolm” says Delilah Sackwell (58).
“And I really detest the way the Liberal Party openly ridicule scientists and human rights advocates”
“But darling, I did not think voting for an Independent would jeopardise spending our winters in London to visit the second oldest!”
