Medicare levy reprieve raises more questions than it answers
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One is that failing some kind of miracle or disaster, depending on your point of view, at the ballot box, the corporate tax cuts are now as dead as the dinosaurs and the dodo.
If they aren’t going to proceed then, on paper at least, the Treasurer has a lot more money to play around with.
He could either blow it on the political equivalents of wine, women and song through some judiciously targeted pork barreling campaigns (cue Barnaby Joyce) or, as appears to be the case, remove an additional impost on Australian families already battling rising power costs, rising petrol costs, rising housing costs and rising private health insurance costs against the backdrop of what is effectively a wage freeze.
It’s actually pretty clever politics for a government that has demonstrated a remarkable talent for shooting at its own feet over the past few years.
Mr Morrison has managed to take two battles he was never going to win in the Senate and turn them into a political asset by saying sound financial management had made all the difference.
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