Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Again the Leader of the Opposition puts a question to the parliament based on an entirely false premise—that taxes have increased under this government as a proportion of gross domestic product. The only effective measure of the tax impact on the economy is tax as a proportion of GDP, and tax as a proportion of GDP has gone down this year relative to last year, relative to the year before that, relative to the year before that and relative to the year before that as well. I suggest that the Leader of the Opposition study his statistics and work it out.

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