Treasurer Tim Pallas has abandoned the sinking ship that is Victoria under a Labor government, just like his equally complicit former boss Daniel Andrews, before the whole state economy hits the fan says The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh.
He says the writing is clearly on Labor’s wall – they’ve got the numbers so wrong none of them want to be around when their house of cards collapses.
“Andrews cut and run, just as you would expect, handing the poisoned chalice to co-conspirator Jacinta Allan and now Tim Pallas, the man who has added almost $17 billion a year – every year – to the Victorian government’s debt is bolting before his day of reckoning arrives,” Mr Walsh says.
“When Labor was elected in 2014 the Liberals Nationals government was managing a very conservative $22 billion state debt – today it stands at almost $190 billion and climbing,” Mr Walsh explained.
“And Tim Pallas has had his hand on the economic helm of Victoria for every one of those 10 years,” he says.
“It is one thing to be Victoria’s longest-serving Treasurer but paying for that legacy will be longest financial crisis in our state’s history.”
Mr Walsh says since 2014 Victorians have been endlessly paying the price for Labor’s financial recklessness and incompetence with 57 new and increased taxes introduced.
And he says each new tax is an attack on aspiration, investment and choice.
“You can only squeeze so much blood out of a stone and the Allan Labor government has bled us all dry – but don’t expect that will stop it from taxing you more to pay for its unparalleled litany of failures,” Mr Walsh added.
