if you're a rusted-on supporter of coalition, page-2

" collections from the tax would have been almost $39 billion higher."


The ALP under Rudd, then Gillard, with Swan, would've spent that extra money and still put us into debt.

That's what you don't get mmartin, this government never gets anything right, never gets it's forecasts even close, and always spends tens of billions more than it receives.

It wouldn't matter if Howard & Costello had left Rudd $100 Billion cash in the bank.

We would still be in the hock.