Labor’s great big new dog of a tax is the act of a greedy and heartless government that will hit farmers and country Victorians the hardest, as well as raising the cost of rent and food, hurting the most vulnerable across our state.
Labor, together with the Animal Justice, Greens, and Legalise Cannabis parties, have completely sold out Victorians, doing a dirty deal to ram this controversial bill through parliament in the early hours of Friday morning.
Jacinta Allan’s Emergency Services and “Volunteers” Fund is Labor’s 60th new or increased tax.
Large parts of rural Victoria are currently experiencing horrendous drought conditions, and farmers are under incredible financial stress. To impose an excessive new tax on them at this time, so that Labor can fill its budget black holes, is heartless and cruel.
Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes both represent regional communities, and yet they have sold out their constituents and are willing to send them to the wall with another new tax.
Wendy Lovell,
State Member for Northern Victoria Region,
222 Wyndham St, Shepparton.
