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Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie just appeared on Nine’s Today show, and has slammed Labor for “wheeling out” former prime minister Paul Keating to defend its budget amid criticism of changes to the capital gains tax.
In a written statement, Keating, a mentor of Chalmers who first created the CGT, said investors “want to retain a preference for capital over wage and salary income.”
“You know something’s wrong … when you have to wheel out Paul Keating to stick up for your budget. I mean, a lot’s changed, Mr. Keating, in the quarter of a century since you’ve been in charge of the Treasury,” McKenzie said this morning.
McKenzie also said she backed in Minns’ criticisms of the federal government, after he said yesterday they had failed to provide bigger income tax cuts.
“I’ll take more of it if I can get it. We all, need all shoulders to the wheel to disclose just how bad this budget is,” she said.
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