Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

So we have three positions. First they are paying just enough. Then they are paying too much. And now the opposition leader comes in and says: ‘I’ll clear it up. The answer is that they’re paying more than their fair share of tax. They’re being treated unfairly and they shouldn’t have to pay all that tax.’ Well, of course he would say that.

Part of this scare campaign relates to prices. We heard the shadow small business minister, when I interjected asking, ‘Will it increase the price of Mars bars?’ saying, ‘Yes, it will.’ This is the Mars bar effect. We have just heard of it today—the Mars bar effect of the Resource Super Profits Tax. Get your Mars bars now, hoard your Mars bars, before the Resource Super Profits Tax because up will go the price of Mars bars! Quick—get out there and buy Picnics, Mars bars, Redskins, Cobbers, Mint Leaves—

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