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This is really nice news. I've been working my arse off trying to get out of an ever-chasing increase in costs. So it feels like every pay rise means I'm just back to where I was two years ago.

I feel like my income now is good enough to finally allow some savings once debts and other things are chipped away, and I was scared that now I finally have nostrils above water, I'd get slammed back down for "earning too much". At that point, I'd just accept that my end of life years will be miserable and a total burden to tax payers because I never got the chance to breathe and prepare for life and health after work.

I need a break because I'm running out of critical time that's normally used to prepare for senior years. I've already accepted working past retirement is a likely offsetethod for this.

“[Shadow treasurer] Taylor refused to say whether Australians earning more than $150,000 deserved a tax cut…”

Very telling, don’t you think?

Oh ha, lmao I just posted this to news. Uhh mods clean up my post if that sort of duplication isn't allowed.

Gotta say I'm happy, I'd rather see it dropped but that's just not really politically possible so at least this way we're not giving welfare to the rich in one of the lowest taxed OECD countries during a looming revenue crisis as boomers age into their hip replacements.

$150,000??????

That’s like 3x my income, that’s I could buy a house every 10 years money. Fuck that noise, people with that much don’t need a tax cut.

Watching the conservative media do backflips over how poor Aussie battlers on $200k are hard done by on this is hilarious.

This was a responsible compromise from a functioning government.

Well done to Albo for this honestly. It would have been better if they scrapped the whole thing.

Finally got the stones. Must be an election year...

Fuck aspirational voters. People with minimum wage jobs are being creeped into the next highest tax bracket with people making 119kpa, while struggling with rent, utilities and food price increases.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Savings will be redirected to low- and middle-income earners in a “substantial” cost-of-living relief package, delivering on Albanese’s promise this week that “everyone will get a tax cut” by including those earning between the tax-free threshold of $18,200 and $45,000.

The opposition has noted it amounts to Labor breaking its 2022 election promise to match the stage-three cuts, which were already legislated to take effect in July.

The stage-three plan would have delivered tax cuts worth $9,000 to high-income earners, prompting demands from the Greens and the crossbench to scrap or adjust them to improve fairness.

Asked about his earlier remarks that when it comes to delivering the tax cuts his word was his bond, Albanese said his job was “to get the best outcome for Australians”.

Some Labor MPs are concerned about a backlash from aspirational middle-income voters and that the Coalition campaign on broken promises will hurt in marginal seats – particularly in Western Australia.

But even MPs most at risk acknowledge that although the reforms will be weaponised it is a debate Labor must have to fund greater relief for those struggling to keep up with increased prices, particularly rent and mortgages.

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