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May 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has hinted he could claw back the latest increase in family payments if he wins government.
Labor announced in Tuesday’s budget that families on Family Tax Benefit A would receive up to $300 extra a year per child from mid-2013. Parents with two or more children could receive up to $600.
That’s on top of carbon tax compensation announced last year of up to $110 per child. Those on Family Tax Benefit B could be $69 a year better off.
But Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said on Friday the extra money announced in the 2012/13 budget was effectively compensation for a tax the coalition doesn’t support and plans to repeal.
‘I don’t begrudge the Australian public this money at this time, given they’re just about to get clobbered and their power bills and their gas bills and just about everything else is going to be going up and up and up,’ he told Sky News.
‘But nevertheless, what we do with this particular measure in the longer term is something that we will tell people in good time before the next election.’
Mr Abbott said if there were no carbon tax, no one would need compensation.
‘I am not saying this particular (family payment) measure is there forever,’ he said.
‘But certainly it’s not something that we are inclined to oppose at this time.’
The Labor Party said families risked having thousands of dollars a year ripped out of their pockets if Mr Abbott’s team won the next election, due in late 2013.
This week the opposition voted against a $2.1 billion plan to give cash bonuses to parents to pay for school items, but the bills passed with the support of the independents and the Greens.
‘What’s remarkable is the day after voting against the school kids bonus Mr Abbott is out today warning families he wants to take that money away,’ Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.
During a speech at a Liberal Party function in Sydney on Friday, Mr Abbott said a coalition government would need to find at least $50 billion in savings.
This would be a ‘substantial savings challenge’.
‘But the coalition has always historically risen to it,’ he said.
Mr Abbott said most of the $33 billion worth of budget savings identified by Treasurer Wayne Swan over the forward estimates had resulted from ‘broken promises’ such as not going ahead with a corporate tax cut.
He said also Ms Gillard – who this week said Mr Abbott should talk to families beyond Sydney’s north shore – had ‘deliberately set out to divide Australians into them and us’.
Ms Gillard refused to back away from her midweek comments, which prompted Mr Abbott on Thursday to accuse her of playing a class-war card by portraying the political contest as one between billionaires and battlers.
‘I don’t resile from those comments at all,’ Ms Gillard told ABC Radio.
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