Aussies Won’t Buy Kevin’s New Con Trick

May 7, 2010

Australians will not be fooled by con-man Kevin’s attempt to link his great big new resource tax with the planned three per cent increase in the superannuation guarantee, Shadow Minister for Superannuation Luke Hartsuyker said today.

Mr Hartsuyker said the Prime Minister was gilding the lily with his rhetoric on superannuation.

“In a desperate attempt to sell his great big new tax, Mr Rudd has tried to tie the tax to the three per cent increase in super guarantee levy,” he said.  “Australians are not fooled and they know it will not be the Government that pays the extra superannuation guarantee – it’ll be small businesses.   Mr Rudd’s plan equates to a three per cent rise in pay roll tax for the hundreds of thousands of small businesses right around the country.  As support for his great big new tax falls each day, Kevin Rudd is desperate, which is why he is trying to link the tax to the super guarantee.

“Everything Mr Rudd says is more about spin than substance. He is once again trying to con Australians just as he tried to do with Fuelwatch, GroceryChoice, the ETS, and the home insulation scheme. But Australians are wise to the hot air and froth of our Prime Minister.  If Mr Rudd is fair dinkum then he needs to place on the record now that his new resource tax will not pay one dollar toward to three per cent rise in the super guarantee - simple language for a simple fact.

“Metals and mining stock fell another 2.03 per cent yesterday. Workers and retirees have now lost around $16.5 billion in superannuation savings since Rudd’s great big new tax on mining was leaked to the press on April 13.  All Australians have a stake in the mining sector through superannuation. Workers and retirees are now losing their fair share of the mining boom as superannuation balances plunge as result of Kevin Rudd’s great big new super tax.”

 

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