Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer confirm that all of the spending announcements associated with the government’s great big new mining tax are a growing recurrent cost to the budget? Given that the Treasurer will spin every dollar of the new mining tax, what happens to the budget if the tax does not raise the $12 billion in the budget?

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