The NSW Liberals have spent the last two weeks trying to make up for the last 12 years of waste and mismanagement.
This isn’t a budget about NSW’s best interests, this is a budget about the best interests of the NSW Liberal’s and National’s.
Twelve years in and we are headed towards $182.2 billion in gross debt, our AAA credit rating shredded, and interest repayments which will grow at 24 per cent a year – every single year.
By 2025-26, the NSW Liberals hope to saddle every single person in NSW with over $21,500 each in debt, and interest repayments of over $700 every year, per person.
The one thing on the minds of the people of NSW right now is that the price of everything is going up – we are in a cost of living crisis under the NSW Liberals.
But Dominic Perrottet and Matt Kean have:
- No plan to help families deal with the cost-of-living crisis that is engulfing this state;
- No plan to help boost high quality local jobs in this state;
- No plan to future proof the NSW education system;
- No plan to reverse the Americanisation of the NSW economy; and
- No plan to bring discipline and responsibility to the management of state finances.
Cost of living is going up and families will be wondering whether Mr Perrottet and Mr Kean will be there for them in a non-election year.
The proposal for land tax is the first step towards “Perrottet’s preferred model” of a land tax. This will be a forever tax on the homes of people who can least afford it.
After 12 years and four Liberal Premiers, their record is clear:
- Cost of living for NSW families is out of control – tolls, fees, fines, taxes and charges are up;
- Debt has blown out to $182.2 billion in gross debt, our AAA credit rating is shredded;
- Privatisation has led to an American-style user-pays-more model. We have already seen it with tolls and electricity prices;
- Education outcomes have gone backwards and we have a chronic teacher shortage;
- Our health system is in crisis – with emergency wait times the worst they have ever been, paramedics overstretched and nurses overworked;
- They have offshored manufacturing jobs – we’ve lost 4,000 jobs overseas; and
- A plan for a forever tax on your home.
After this 12th Liberal and National Budget, there is a clear choice for the people of NSW – to change the future of NSW, we must change the Government.