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@JEChalmers Bad policy is bad politics! Paul Keating… your idol… said this. Well he has a point, at least , on that. Your budget is a sledgehammer to productivity and also a sledgehammer to any delusions of you ever being PM.

Sat down with Mark Kenny and Marija Taflaga on the Democracy Sausage podcast and covered our Budget, reform, and the real meaning of aspiration. This Budget is all about addressing some of the anxieties we’re seeing across the world, and I appreciated the opportunity to chat about it in more depth than usual. If you’d like to have a listen, you can find it here: open.spotify.com/episode/4yVzGw…

@mirandadevine Welfare leviathan alright … the way Dim Jim is driving the economy, we will all need to be tapping NDIS to put food on table and pay for Bowen’s climate crusade 🙈

This is Australia. The consequences of a new welfare leviathan - the National Disability Insurance Scheme - NDIS. The spending is out of control. And pity the kids who genuinely have a disability because there's nothing left.

@Ausbobsmit I’d heard of Chardonnay socialism…. However this mob it’s Champagne communism. Pollies gorging themselves while the sheeple scramble for bread crumbs 🐷v 🐿️

Australians have no confidence in the Prime Minister or the Government. The GG needs to do her job, place this government into caretaker mode, dissolve the parliament. This mob have done enough damage.

@Jeremy_Morton_ @AlboMP Asking Jim to explain productivity is like asking Anika Wells how to spend the tax dollar prudently 🫪🙈🍾

Treasurer asked to explain productivity impact of tax changes... The fact that NONE of the 23 members of the @AlboMP Gov't Cabinet have ever run a business is blindingly obvious as they stumble over trying to explain the benefits of their tax policy changes. Probably time to be honest & admit this is about budget repair, not intergenerational inequality or fairness between tax on labour & capital. It's a bit like watching John Hewson explaining his proposed tax changes on the price of a birthday cake 🎂 abc.net.au/news/2026-05-2…

@cjoye @peaceitw Well put Sam 👍

The start-up and tech focus is BS - the budget hammers every single business and its employee owners. The incentive to work hard is being destroyed at all businesses in the name of Labor expanding the public service by 25% and paying for a government sector that is the largest share of the overall economy since WWII. It is highly regressive, stealth socialism. It is making once extraordinary Aussies very, very ordinary by global standards. We are rapidly going from world-class to cattle-class. From the Wonder Down Under to Asia’s Ibiza

@cjoye Blokes like you should be shifting off shore … why would you prop up and subsidise this economic stupidity. That’s not a criticism of you … rather I’m questioning Jim’s financial literacy… you wouldn’t let the bloke run a chook raffle 🐔

Within 20 years, 1-in-5 Aussies could be paying the top marginal income tax rate of 47%...

@ryu_tay Anika feels under compensated 🤦‍♂️

That's not the viral moment, the shocking moment was when he said "shares have been long undercompensated so we needed to increase CGT on all assets to compensate them." Its like watching the US congressman answering questions 🤡 Absolutely no clue of what he was talking about. news.com.au/national/polit…

@macsween_prue @australian Well articulated

Saving the best til last on @australian Henry Ergas says of this hapless Treasurer:

@CampbellNewman @JEChalmers Well this budget will ensure Jim never becomes PM. So I guess that is one positive

It's clear that @JEChalmers doesn't actually know what he is doing. The sooner the PM punts him, the sooner they can extract themselves from this quagmire he has created.

@FinancialReview Maybe more funding for NDIS…. Hell the whole country should be on it! … Greens … holy fuk … they might even make Dim Jim look like he understands economics 101 🤦‍♂️

Negotiations have begun between Labor and the Greens, and the latter want tougher changes to CGT and negative gearing to provide revenue for bigger tax cuts. ebx.sh/kki7wr

@Ausbobsmit @eagle068 Captain Creepy

Public servants kissing in the workplace should be banned. What else did Albanese do to this young staffer. Looks creepy as all hell.

@DaveSharma @peaceitw Look …got to find a way to pay for Anika’s cost of living needs 🤷‍♂️

@HonTonyAbbott Well articulated. Australia was built on people … “having a go” This govt seems hell bent on crushing that …. 🤯

Finally both parties are showing their real colours after a decade when they mostly tried to be a slightly more attractive version of the other side, with the Coalition just a little less enthusiastic than Labor for big government, climate action, and mass migration. By committing a future Coalition government to ending bracket creep, taxation by stealth, Taylor has made the next election wealth creation versus wealth redistribution and pitched the Liberals as the party of aspiration versus the party of resentment. Higher taxes on property and heavier taxes on wealth creation are not just broken promises with no redeeming policy feature. They're an assault on the Australian dream that people who strive to get ahead should not be punished for their efforts and that people who 'have a go' should get a 'fair go' from government. Read my latest exclusive at The Tony Abbott Newsletter: tonyabbott.au/p/the-sunset-o…

@FinancialReview AI gave me a summary of Allegra’s tax white paper and based on that I observe that her tax ideas largely mirror Labors 🤦‍♂️… so yep she should be back peddling… she might get punted given her electorate won’t want a death tax and a complete mauling to small businesses

The high-profile independent MP claims to have “underestimated” the impact of capital gains tax changes, which she pushed for two months ago. ebx.sh/reKKOj

@ClareONeilMP Government is the problem… what part of that don’t you understand?! Get out of the way … and maybe the young will have a hope of buying a home

Our housing system has been stacked against ordinary Australians for too long. That’s why we’re making changes to level the playing field for renters and first home buyers.

@raywilton4 A bloke more interested in antique clocks than NRL/ cricket / regular Aussie things … so yep another complete fraud unrepresentative of the common man 🤦‍♂️

the former Labor prime minister said wealthy individuals had been the beneficiaries of preferential treatment for investments for decades – rules he said had distorted the tax system and disadvantaged wage earners. theguardian.com/australia-news…

@Snoman_here @JEChalmers Won’t be in the private sector . That dog won’t hunt … 🤷‍♂️

@JEChalmers You'd better get your resume updated. Your time in politics is coming to a rapid ending.

We’re delivering a lot of tax reform in the Budget – here are the facts.

@JEChalmers Aren’t your FACTS subject to change… when it suits ?! Not before elections… but when your spending gets that obscene that a Deatb duty is required?!

@BenFordhamLive Jim aka Confucius

We’ve had a confusing back and forth with the Treasurer's office. It relates to the new tax on trusts. Listen to the details HERE. 🎧omny.fm/shows/ben-ford…🎧

Redistribute to the political class firstly… and then redistribute as broadly as possible such that most people, have some level of reliance. Raise the dependency ratio