反对党刺激经济提案将令政府负债1770亿

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反对党刺激经济提案将令政府负债1770亿

http://www.smh.com.au/news/natio ... /1234027855691.html

Mark Davis Political Correspondent
February 9, 2009


反对党领袖谭保（Malcolm Turnbull），承认他提出的刺激经济提案也将使得联邦政府负债1770亿；相对于陆克文提出的令政府负债2000亿的提案。


THE Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, conceded yesterday that his alternative plan for an economic stimulus package would still require government borrowing of up to $177 billion, compared with the Federal Government's proposal to borrow up to $200 billion.

Mr Turnbull has argued that the Government's $42 billion plan would saddle taxpayers with an unsustainable level of government debt and has proposed a scaled-back package.

Asked yesterday how much less debt would be incurred under his proposal compared with the Government's, he said: "It would involve somewhere between $22 billion and $27 billion less debt."

He said this was a lot of money and taxpayers should be frightened if Labor believed a difference of $25 billion in the amount of debt involved in the two plans was insignificant.

"The problem with the package is it is putting an absolutely unsustainable burden of debt on future generations."

Government officials said the difference was only 2 per cent of gross domestic product, which was the usual benchmark for assessing the sustainability of government balance sheets.

The Government began negotiations with the Greens and minor Senate parties over the weekend in an attempt to secure passage of the stimulus package, which is due to be voted on by the upper house by Thursday.

Under Labor's plan, low- and middle-income earners would receive $12.7 billion in cash payments and the Government would spend $14.7 billion on school building projects, $6.6 billion on public housing and $2.7 billion on tax breaks for businesses.

Treasury estimates that this extra spending, combined with a collapse in tax revenues, will produce budget deficits totalling $118 billion over the next four years.

At present the Government has gross debt of $58 billion. At the end of last financial year this was more than offset by $110 billion in financial assets, meaning the Government had no net debt.

As part of the economic stimulus package, the Government is seeking parliamentary approval to lift the amount of gross debt on issue to as much as $200 billion to finance its budget deficits.

Treasury estimates this would mean the Government would have about $70 billion in net debt by 2011-12, representing about 5.2 per cent of GDP.

Mr Turnbull renewed his call for the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, to negotiate with the Opposition on the stimulus package.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said the Government was willing to negotiate with the Greens, the Family First senator Steve Fielding and the South Australian independent Nick Xenophon on the details of the package.

But there was no room for negotiations with the Opposition because it had already voted against the legislation in the House of Representatives and had declared that it would vote against it in the Senate.

"When you say you are going to vote against something, what is left to talk about?" she said.

nzsandra

没高明到哪去，这不是搬起石头砸自己的脚么？

steven_sa

反对党反对党，就得为反对而反对