- They're more "modest" than the Liberals' were;
- We can pay for them responsibly by cutting public services for the poor;
- Tax cuts which primarily favour the rich somehow also make unions content so they won't push for wage increases for the working class*.
Just in case the apology last week had fooled you into thinking Rudd was some kind of compassionate lefty. We were worried for a moment there - but it turns out he was only pretending. Thank God!
Anyway, if people didn't want public services cut for the poor, they'd have abandoned their years of only voting for the two major parties and elected the Greens to government from the starting point of no House of Representative MPs whatsoever. And did they break years of tradition and conditioning and do that? No, they didn't. (And fair enough - would you want to take the risk of Bob Brown injecting your child with gay heroin and making him marry a tree? The Herald Sun told me that was what he was planning...)
Therefore, the majority of Australians clearly want we wealthy people to get the tax cuts we successfully lobbied both major parties for. If that happens to screw struggling families** by causing them to lose their houses at the next major rate rise, at least they'll be comforted to know that the rich whose tax cuts prompted the rise and who are more likely to have investments than overall debts are benefiting every time the vicious circle iterates.
Most importantly, not giving the wealthy precisely what we want is just another form of that shameful class envy we like to use to downplay everything you lefties say. Class envy! Class envy! Class envy! You filthy bolsheviks.
So, in summary, shut up and let us enjoy our tax cuts in peace.
* Don't think about the logic of that
** Apparently the "f" word is the only way to get a major party politician to take someone's suffering seriously.
