Are Victorians waking up that they’ve been had, yet?
Pfft. Silly question. “Dictator Dan” could piss in Victorians’ faces and they’d praise him for making it rain. They didn’t learn from the blatant corruption and they’re not learning from the endless string of lies and broken promises.
This is, after all, the premier who proclaimed that Victoria’s Covid was reponse was the best in the nation – when, in fact, Victoria had more Covid deaths than every other state combined. The premier promised $1.3 billion to “quickly establish an extra 4,000 ICU beds”: two years later, not a sign of any of it. In fact, Andrews is slashing health spending by $2 billion, as well as infrastructure spending.
Now, Daniel Andrews is smashing homeowners in order to fund housing for welfare recipients.
The Victorian government could slap millions of residents with a new property tax as it struggles to pay for its social and affordable housing scheme.
Victorians are already being bled dry by Dictator Dan.
It comes as a fresh blow for Victorians with residents already paying the most taxes in the country, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
An average resident paid $5,638 in 2021-22 to the local and state governments compared to $5,537 paid by NSW residents and $3,952 by Queenslanders.
The Andrews Government and councils collected an extra $7.3bn in land tax, stamp duty, rates and other charges in the last financial year alone.
At this point, they almost deserve it. This is what they keep voting for, after all.
Last year the Andrews government proposed an $800million social housing tax that would have slapped a 1.75 per cent levy on developers building a project with three or more dwellings.
But after backlash from the property industry, who said it would add $20,000 to the median cost of a house in the state, Mr Andrews scrapped the tax within two weeks.
But then he won the election. As former Labor minister Peter Garrett said, “Once we get in we’ll change it all.”
And Victorians just keep gobbling it up and calling it ice cream.
Victorian Shadow Treasurer Brad Rowswell claimed Victorians were copping the effects of the Andrews government’s poor money management.
“It’s only going to get worse when the Andrews Government hands down what promises to be a horror State Budget next month,” Mr Rowswell said.
“By the Andrews Government’s own numbers, their tax take will rise by 14 per cent over the next three years with the land tax take set to increase by 21 per cent over the same time.”
He said the total state taxes were forecasted to rise to $35.6 billion by 2025 to 2026, rising $17.3 billion compared to the number in 2014.
“And young Victorians continue to struggle to enter the property market thanks to some of the highest stamp duty rates in the nation under the Andrews Government,” he added.
“For as long as the Andrews Government is in power, every Victorian will continue to pay more and get less because it simply can’t manage money,” he said.
Daily Mail
Well, they voted him back in. Suck it up, Victoria.
