The Australian

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    For those who don't read this Murdoch paper, you really are missing something today;

    THE millions of Australians confused and angry that their boss cut their pay this month can instead thank the political party that is supposed to stand up for them. Kevin Rudd’s and Julia Gillard’s most enduring legislative legacy — fleecing the incomes of ordinary workers at permanently higher rates — became personal in July, as the Medicare levy ratcheted up to 2 per cent.

    The extra $4 billion or so that will flow into federal government coffers in this and coming years was meant to “provide strong and stable funding” to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which is better described as a convoluted, largely non-existent pipedream supported and understood in inverse proportions.

    This wasn’t the only unjustified assault on workers by Labor this month. The invisible python that has been wrapped around Australia’s economy since 1993 was permitted to squeeze the lower and middle income workers a little harder in July, siphoning another 0.25 per cent of their earnings into accounts sure to be ravaged by fees, and which will do little to lessen these workers’ reliance on the age pension.

    If you refuse to read what your 'enemy' is doing, you risk making huge fools of yourself. What you attack Abbott for is most likely a Labor initiative
 
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