O primeiro-ministro Scott Morrison e o líder da oposição Bill Shorten trocaram farpas neste domingo sobre os custos das finanças do país.
Scott Morrison disse no eleitorado de Lindsay que o projeto de impostos da oposição vai custar 387 milhões de dólares a mais para o contribuinte do que os planos do governo:
"It's a choice between our government, which has already passed laws and has further plans to get taxes down and to get the tax burden off businesses, small and family businesses, of hard-working Australians; or the Labor party under Bill Shorten which as the treasury analysis has shown will increase taxes above and beyond by $387-billion over the next 10 years."
O porta-voz da oposição para o Tesouro Federal, Chris Bowen, respondeu dizendo que os números do governo não estão corretos.
Bill Shorten disse, também em um eleitorado a oeste de Sydney, que os cálculos do governo estão equivocados e acusou o governo de incitar temor em relação aos impostos:
"We all know the Government wants to run a scare campaign. They've run out of anything positive to say about anyone or anything, haven't they. So, they just want to scare everyone. The reality is this election is about choices. I choose to shut down loopholes, like that accountant's exemption. I choose to support not giving a property investors a subsidy for their sixth house, and I want to spend it on healthcare."
