dan1Re your post which included;"Reckon that the fact that...

dan1

Re your post which included;
"Reckon that the fact that Howard and co handed out tax cuts and put the country in a great position and all the other mob have managed to do is increase taxes and put us back into debt ..."

Even the smallest amount of drilling down into such assertions shows how misleading & divocred from reality they are.

John Howard introduced the GST, instituted the now completely failed gun buyback scheme, delivered the idiotic baby bonus in an over-populated world & even extended welfare to those who least need it.

Howard created long term structural budgeting problems on the back of windfall revenues from the mining boom that caused the RBA to send interest rates through the roof.

With the onset of the GFC it was Kevin Rudd who returned $900 to people who had paid their taxes, sought other means by which to address Howard's massive budget commitments & enabled the RBA to massively reduce interst rates.