Turnbull Budget for big business not battlers

So many people in our community are angry that the centrepiece of the Budget that Malcolm Turnbull is taking to the election is a $50 billion tax cut for big multinational companies paid for by slashing funding for local families and pensioners and your hospitals and schools.

When you consider that a millionaire in Mr Turnbull’s electorate will receive a tax cut of $16,715 while 73,977 people in our electorate will get no tax relief at all, you can see why people are upset with a Prime Minister who is so diabolically out of touch.

If the LNP had any understanding of our local area they wouldn’t have pulled $26 million out of the Metro South Health Service district and they wouldn’t be attacking Medicare and bulk billing with their freeze to GP rebates in this Budget.

The sick and the vulnerable in our area shouldn’t have to pay for a tax cut for big business and nor should our 28,904 students, their teachers and parents.

$230 million dollars has been ripped out of schools in the electorate of Rankin alone, and more throughout Logan in the electorates of Forde and Wright. On average this means $5.3 million out of every school with consequences for the teaching and resources our kids need.

One of Labor’s most important positive policies is a plan to better fund our schools, ensuring each child receives more individual attention. We will close the loopholes for multinational tax avoidance, and stand up against cuts to penalty rates. We will save Medicare.

That’s why the choice at this election is clear: the LNP who will leave local people behind, or a Shorten Labor Government that will put people first.

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