Thread by @AdamBandt

Josh Frydenberg has just stood up to spruik his post-COVID budget.

Spoilers: it will prolong the recession, fuel the climate crisis, and leave young people behind.

Wondering what this trickle-down disaster means for you?

A #Budget2020 thread

To save you the wait:

❌JobSeeker is slashed.

❌Millionaires get tax cuts.

❌Young people get insecure work.

❌Gas donors get cash that should be going to schools and hospitals.

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JobMaker is a recipe for temporary, casual, low wage exploitative work.

Big corporations like McDonalds will be rubbing their hands together.

Instead, we need a job guarantee for young people, with decent wages and secure work.

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Frydenberg boasts about tax cuts, but the facts are:

Millionaires get $2,500, the working poor get $250 and the unemployed get a kick in the teeth.

This $ should be going to build schools, hospitals, and public housing. Instead, it’s going to the super-wealthy.

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Right now, 1 in 3 big corporations pay no tax.

Morrison’s plan: 2 in 3 corporations will pay no tax.

Seriously.🤬

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This manufacturing plan isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

It’s a drop in the ocean – they’re giving five times more to tax cuts than they are to restart our manufacturing industry.

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Josh Frydenberg finally mentions climate change. Then **in the very next breath** commits to open five mega gas zones across Australia.

Satire is dead. If the Liberals get their way, the planet is too. 😡

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Now – the Treasurer is talking about drought. Straight after committing to make the climate crisis worse.🤦‍♂️

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If the government was serious about protecting people’s mental health, they wouldn’t be throwing them into poverty.

JobSeeker and JobKeeper must be restored.

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Of course, no budget would be complete without record funding for the military.

Public schools are underfunded, universities get slashed & people are living in poverty, but there’s always money for new missiles.

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This should have been a budget of hope, with full employment and a green recovery.

Instead, this budget actively chooses to prolong the recession, fuel the climate crisis and leave young people behind.

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To be clear, this '6% unemployment' goal of the government means austerity cuts will kick in again when there are still *2 million people* without jobs or enough work.

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From dodgy tax tables in the #Budget2020 papers to unbelievably heroic assumptions about growth, Scotty from Marketing’s fingerprints are all over this Budget spin.

We will be fighting these #Budget2020 tax handouts to the super-wealthy with everything we’ve got, and we hope Labor joins us in the trenches instead of voting with the Coalition again.

There are no limits on what is possible right now, if we just have the vision and the courage to stand up to those vested interests who are lining their pockets.

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The @Greens will be pushing for a Green New Deal that takes action on climate change, fixes the employment crisis, and ends soaring inequality.

Are you with us? ✊💚

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