u/Kid_Self

I strongly suspect the removal of CGT Discount on Shares is simply extra fat and will become the sacrificial pawn of the budget during parliamentary negotiations.

It's a fairly classic government maneuver: package up what you actually want with additional reform, something a little spicy that gets people hotheaded. So when it comes to parliamentary negotiation and implementation, the government has something to cut away as a "compromise", whilst still delivering exactly what they want.

With the amount of discussion generated about CGT Discount reform on Shares/ETFs, I'd say its doing the job as intended. It was meant to stir a bit of outrage to dilute the property conversation, the actual core reform the government wants to deliver, making those changes more palatable.

Give your opponents plenty of targets and they might take down one or two, but the core remains intact.

It's actually starting to piss me off and is detracting from the details of the budget.

So, the argument being made is that Albo's government broke an election promise about making no changes to Negative Gearing. All they've offered is a soundbite of Albo in a radio interview several years ago being asked about it, and he simply said, "No."

Now, on Budget night, ABC journos, especially Sarah Ferguson's interview with Jim Chalmers absolutely tried to hammer him on that point, barely discussing anything else. She did the same with the Albo interview last night.

And the ABC's live budget thread on their website keeps reiterating this point.

Simply, Who the Fuck Cares?

It didn't seem like a strong commitment years ago, and the electorate has definitely shifted since, with younger Australians becoming the majority demographic, and the housing issue blowing up.

Governments are slow. They take time to catch up to social sentiment. All I've seen is this Labor government read the room and take some action on it. Y'know, how one would expect governments to run.

And, given the rapidly shifting global state of affairs, it is not amiss that circumstances 3+ years ago are different than today. Yet the ABC seems to really be pining hard for this "broken election promise" angle that really just doesn't exist.

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