Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The only reason they want to raise taxes is so they can spend more money. That is the agenda of those opposite. As we go to this election, the Australian people know that their agenda is not to lift growth but to lift tax and that our agenda is to get spending as low as we can and to manage the growth in expenditure going forward so that we can ensure Australians can have the lower taxes that they need. Australians are going to work every day to pay tax on what they earn, and those opposite seem to be completely oblivious to the concerns of average Australian taxpayers, who are going to have to pay more and more tax on what they earn. Those opposite think that those Australians are the problem. They want to rip away from them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest in a property so that they can get themselves ahead.

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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