The Coalition in the senate is being just as ridiculous.

James McGrath just asked if the government could finally rule out taxing ‘spare bedrooms’ in the family home. I think this has all come from a proposal put forward by the analytics firm Cotality ahead of the economic roundtable, which was to tax spare bedrooms, in order to address the housing issue, as well as the tax deficit.

It was an idea. Put forward by a third party. At a summit which was designed to discuss IDEAS. Which the Coalition has now decided to make it’s entire personality.

These people are just being punishes for the sake of it now.

Penny Wong:

I know that those opposite are uncomfortable with the fact that the party that went to the election with higher taxes is you and I know Senator McGrath and others on the front in the coalition are on the record as wanting smaller government, and it must be very hard for them to deal with the fact that the party who went to the last election with higher taxes for every taxpayer is the coalition. Now what the Prime Minister has said is that we will be implementing the tax policy we took to the last election towards making the tax system more efficient and fairer. We’re going to be implementing our policy to give every Australian taxpayer tax cut. We cut taxes for every Australian on the first of July 2024 and we will do it again for the first of July 2026 and again on the first of July 2027 I think it has been very clear that there is one party which has been focused on making our tax system fairer, and that is the Australian Labor Party.

McGrath then asks if every family ‘forced to move’ by the non-existent spare bedroom tax that doesn’t exist will be found safe accommodation near by. This is the standard of stupid we are being served up at the moment by the opposition. The stupid is not just stupiding, it is contagious.