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May 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The federal government says families risk having thousands of dollars a year ripped out of their pocket if Opposition Leader Tony Abbott wins the next election.
Labor announced in Tuesday’s budget that families receiving Family Tax Benefit A would receive up to $300 extra a year per child from mid-2013. Parents with two or more kids could get up to $600.
That’s on top of carbon tax compensation announced last year of up to $110 per child. Those getting Family Tax Benefit B could be $69-a-year better off.
Mr Abbott on Friday said the extra money announced in the 2012/13 budget was “effectively carbon tax compensation”.
“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,” the opposition leader 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 if there was no carbon tax, which starts on July 1, 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.”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard was quick to jump on the comments.
“What’s remarkable is the day after voting against the schoolkids bonus Mr Abbott is out today warning families he wants to take that money away,” she told Adelaide commercial radio.
Families Minister Jenny Macklin said Mr Abbott had confirmed families were at risk of having thousands of dollars a year ripped away under a coalition government.
“We know families need a bit of extra support to help them make ends meet,” Ms Macklin said in a statement.
“But the Liberals don’t think families deserve it.”
Mr Abbott insists families will be better off under a coalition government because they’ll get tax cuts without a carbon tax.
The prime minister on Friday also refused to back away from her midweek comments that Mr Abbott should get off Sydney’s north shore and “talk to some real families”.
The Liberal leader on Thursday night accused her of playing the 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 on Friday.
“Mr Abbott came into the parliament this week to stop working people, hard-working families, in getting the benefits of the schoolkids bonus and voted against it not once but time after time.”
The opposition unsuccessfully opposed Labor’s schoolkids budget bonus worth $2.1 billion over five years. It passed parliament on Thursday with the money to start flowing in June.
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