tony abbott, page-3

ahjay

Exactly what Tony Abbott strength were you referring to?

Some 9 months into his government and all we have to show for making him PM are disasters, lies, backflips, scandals, international relations crisis, declining consumer confidence and outrage over Abbott's war on the poor:

"... The problem for the Abbott government is that its useful political mantras about reducing tax and its deceptive wailing about the alleged spending atrocities and waste of Rudd and Gillard have turned it into a policy cul-de-sac. Apart from the Medicare-PBS co-payments and undoing the Howard freeze on petrol tax indexation, its principal means of improving the budget is cutting spending. This, however, doesn't address the critical fiscal weakness around revenue. Indeed, Abbott has bound himself into reducing taxes and, if he does so, he will compound the fiscal problem he has - unless he's able to make further large-scale and unpopular spending cuts. ..."

http://www.theage.com.au/national/public-service/all-politics-no-policy-all-complaint-no-solutions-tony-abbott-nails-himself-20140601-39ckd.html

Of course Abbott's budget increased taxes on the poor and needy but flagged much better times ahead for the already wealthy and ever-so-greedy!