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[Brightman]

Bit of a difference. More than half of Labours cuts ($2.45B) were not active spending, and were closing down empty and unspent COVID-19 contingency funds and pulling back moeny from scrapped and unstarted projects. The actual ongoing baseline cut to existing department budgets was only $1.4B.
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The Coailitions structural overhaul of $2.4B isn't a one off clawback, it's a permanent and mult year $2.4B stripped directly out of ongoing agency operating budgets (2% this year, compounding to 5% every year after).
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To put it simply, Labour took back billions in unspent allowance that departments hadn't touched. The Coalition is permanently removing billions from active operational budgets.. And you wonder why the Unions are up in arms?

So are you for spending or saving taxpayers money??

 

[Damo]

So are you for spending or saving taxpayers money??

Neither. I am for value. Every tax payer wants their money handled responsibly.. It's not between spending and saving it is about structural priorities.
There is a big difference between cutting unspent money and permanent structural downsizing of operational infrastructure to bankroll broad tax cuts.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Congratulations Maiki Sherman

 

[MaybeTop8]

So are you for spending or saving taxpayers money??