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‘No sense’ to tax cuts, Remeikis says

Guardian Australia’s political reporter Amy Remeikis is on the ABC Insiders panel, where talk has focused on gas prices and the tax cuts.

Remeikis: There is no moral commonsense, economic, anything justification for these tax cuts. They were bad policy when they were introduced.

David Speers: Not even at the middle end?

Remeikis: There is no sense to them. There isn’t. Because when you look at the cost to the budget and what people will have to forgo, because if you don’t think that we are not going to get into some sort of austerity situation to pay for them, then you are kidding yourself.

We are already having conversations about whether we can afford the NDIS or not, and that is absolutely also abhorrent when you think about what the NDIS represents and what it is meant to be. It [the tax cuts] was bad policy when it was introduced. It is even worse policy now.

Asked about the risk of Labor breaking a promise it took to the election, she says:

How people interpret the broken promise is on us, the media. If we hound them, then that becomes the narrative which is also bad policy, so we have a responsibility as well.