Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

If he wants to ask me about tax, he should come to the dispatch box and fess up to a decade of the second highest taxing government in the last 30 years, the highest since Howard, where taxes were higher under them, per capita, in total, per year, every way you want to cut the tax record of those opposite. He can deliver speech after speech, plagiarised from a Liberal Party newsletter in the 1980s, all he likes; that won't change that basic fact.

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