Budget 2010: Average family loses $55 a week - Goff

[MotherBear]

Budget 2010: Average family loses $55 a week - Goff
By Derek Cheng
4:00 AM Friday May 21, 2010

It's jam for everyone - except when you factor in the highest rate of inflation in 20 years and fee rises for early childhood education, in which case it's only jam for the wealthy.

That's the blunt assessment from the Labour Party, which is rubbishing the Budget and Government estimates that the average household will be better off from the tax cuts.

"It's a tax swindle," said Opposition leader Phil Goff. "This is a Budget, Mr English, that looks after you and your mates on your level of income.

"The top 1 per cent of income earners will get 12 times the cut in their income tax than the average earner."

Labour has crunched its own numbers and says that when inflation and a rise in early childhood education (ECE) fees are taken into account, the average family will be $55 a week worse off.

More here.

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[Justy]

That figures. I wrote to Phil Goff about a few issues and did not even get a reply.