Frydenberg plays class warfare card as billionaires double wealth
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has kicked off the election cycle by scaremongering over Labor’s “class warfare”:
“Anthony Albanese has spent his whole career arguing for higher taxes whether it was the retirees tax or the housing tax or the super tax, and a big supporter of the carbon tax and the mining tax”…
“Anthony Albanese has talked about the top end of town – Labor’s class war rhetoric, their desire to pit one Australian against another, that has run through their DNA.”
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.