Luke Simpkins (Cowan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

A credit. That is why Peter Costello was able to deliver all those tax refunds. That is where it all came out. The Australian people saw the realities of tax refunds reducing personal tax, and that is because of that funny word called the ‘surplus’. It is something that this government has not yet found. It has found a lot of ways to spend and a lot of ways to tax, but it has not got to that surplus part.

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