Are people aware that Tony Abbott's paid maternity leave scheme that rewards people on higher income as a reverse means testing (up to $75 000 for 6 months leave) will be paid for with a temporary levy on big business but eventually revert to being funded by taxpayers once the budget returns to surplus.....Taxpayers will be funding this crap policy that is unfair and inequitable.....Why do people who are better off need more money to raise a child???

Bishop hopes parental leave levy temporary

Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop has played down the impost the Coalition's paid parental leave plan would have on big business.

Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has put forward a proposal to tax big business to help pay for a 26-week parental leave scheme.

Under the proposal, companies with a taxable income of more than $5 million a year will be hit with a 1.7 per cent levy.

But speaking on Channel Nine, Ms Bishop suggested the levy could be scrapped once the budget returns to surplus.

"There is no surplus. Labor has spent the surplus. They've driven us into deficit," she said.

"So we've come up with what previous Coalition governments have done before when they've taken over a budget in deficit and a massive debt and that is impose what we hope will be a temporary levy."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-03-14/bishop-hopes-parental-leave-levy-temporary...

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/coalition-should-not-waver-from-its-origi...

http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/paid-parental-leave-abbott-tipp...

The Liberals' tax on big business will begin a year before its promised cut to the company tax rate.  It will mean big firms will pay 31.5 per cent tax in the first year. After that, the tax cut and the parental levy will cancel each other out.

He has said his levy will be "temporary", and he wants it removed when the Budget goes back into surplus.  But he has not tied himself to a timeline on that.

Under his original parental leave policy, Mr Abbott would have effectively increased company tax for big business by 0.2 per cent, pulling an extra $600,000 a year off companies.

Taxpayers will be paying for this scheme that rewards greed and provides more money determined by the more income you have as a reverse means test!!!

Julie Bishop: "Did I say that out loud?"
Advisor: "Yes, you did"
Julie Bishop: "sh!t!"

longweekend58 wrote on Feb 28^th, 2012 at 6:17pm:


No, as cowpacks go you always drop a big one.

Special deal lets Coalition keep payrise

TAXPAYERS are set to give two Coalition frontbenchers an extra $45,000 a year pay which legislation says they're not actually entitled to.
It solves a sensitive problem for Opposition Leader Tony Abbott whose shadow ministry is too big.

In December the independent Remuneration Tribunal decided that shadow ministers should receive a premium on their pay of just short of $45,000 to take into account their extra duties.

However, the number of shadow ministers was limited to the numbers in the Government's ministry.

Legislation says a Prime Minister can have a maximum of 30 ministers. Tony Abbott has 32 shadow ministers.

Mr Abbott was faced with the embarrassing task of telling two of his front bench colleagues that they were expendable as shadow ministers - at least as far as pay rises went.

It is unlikely he would find volunteers to forego an extra $45,000, which would be on top of their base salary of about $185,000 a year.

A spokeswoman for the tribunal today said senior tribunal officials "didn't know anything about it".

A spokesman of Special Minister of State Gary Gray said the minister had no been involved in any deal.

However, news.com.au understands the Opposition is confident of transition arrangements being agreed to.

Legislation covering a range of pay rises for MPs and senators passed the Senate last night and will take about two weeks to get royal assent.

The tribunal will then consider any submissions for changes based on transition measures.

A compromise was reached. The Opposition will be able to keep its 32-member shadow ministry and all will be paid the higher rate.

Full story here.....

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/special-deal-lets-coalition-keep-pay...

Abbott claims he wants a smaller Government yet he has cost taxpayers an extra $90 000 a year to have two extra shadow ministers.....What a flake!!!

Liberal Broadbent calls on Abbott to divert maternity pay to disability scheme

TONY Abbott has been tackled by his own side over the Coalition's $6.3 billion paid parental leave scheme, with one of his MPs urging the money go instead to a national disability insurance scheme.

In the Coalition party room today, Victorian Liberal Russell Broadbent called for a re-think of the generous plan, which would deliver wealthy mums up to $75,000 in parental leave payments.

Mr Broadbent a passionate advocate for people with disabilities said if the Coalition could find the money, it should be directed towards an NDIS.

He was slapped down by Mr Abbott, who re-affirmed the Coalition commitment to his paid parental leave policy, saying it was not a welfare measure but a "workplace entitlement".

Mr Abbott criticised Julia Gillard for "playing politics" with disability insurance by claiming it as a Labor reform when it had bipartisan support, and when Labor was yet to commit funding for it.

...Several other MPs backed the Opposition Leader's commitment to the paid parental leave scheme, including Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey, who warned the Coalition could not keep imposing taxes on Australians.

Mr Hockey stressed to colleagues the Coalition had to get the budget bottom line right before allocating money to schemes like the NDIS.

He said the Coalition's paid parental leave scheme would be covered by a 1.5 per cent levy on about 3000 companies.

Labor has only committed $10 million from existing programs towards the $6.5 billion National Disability Insurance scheme, and is at war with the states over how it will be funded.

Coalition disabilities spokesman Mitch Fifield accused Ms Gillard earlier this week of unfairly dragging disabled people into Labor's leadership debate after she claimed the scheme as one of her key reforms as Prime Minister.

Full story here.....

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/liberal-broadbent-calls-on-abbo...

So the Liberal party can find $6.3 billion for the rich to have babies in what is a reverse means tested policy of greed but cannot find any money to fund the most disadvantaged in our society.....I guess silver spoons cost a lot when you already make $150 000 a year???

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 28^th, 2012 at 11:06pm:




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Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 28^th, 2012 at 7:30pm:



In the United States we are an example that you can tackle climate change issues without having a carbon tax

Yet still climate change is being addressed in the USA.

This is the part which most would not agree with. The evidence would show that the US are not addressing climat change.