My tea almost ended up on my keyboard while scrolling through X after I came across the Prime Minister’s latest tweet.

He (or more likely, one of his staffers) had posted a meme with three screenshots of himself featuring increasingly bewildering captions.

Our government is focused on repaying the trust Australians have placed in us…

…by delivering the policies that people voted for. Stronger Medicare. Cheaper medicines.

Building more homes. Lower taxes, and higher wages.

Setting aside delusions of ‘rebuilding trust’ and ‘building homes’ as yet another construction company goes under, it was the promise of ‘lower taxes’ which made me choke on my tea.

It’s a shame the meme-creator in the Prime Minister’s office didn’t add a chaser image of Chris Bowen promising to lower power bills.

Same vibe.

We’re focused on delivering for Australians. pic.twitter.com/wECpQQd42J

— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) July 4, 2025

In all seriousness, this is a government using the excuse of misinformation and disinformation to silence public criticism of their dodgy policies and yet the highest office holder in the nation is allowed to fabricate promises.

How, we may wonder, does the Treasurer’s tax raid on super fit into the lower taxes promise?

Jim Chalmers is all over the ABC promising to overhaul the tax system.

The only reason a Treasurer overhauls a tax system is to hide massive tax hikes under the sheep’s wool of reform.

Another favourite trick is misnaming a tax rise as a reduction in tax breaks or pretending that tax breaks cost money, implying all money earned in the private sector is really stolen wealth from the public coffers.

Apparently there was even mention made of ‘intergenerational justice’ in the tax system, which sounds a tiny bit socialist and a whole lot sinister.

Even the ABC seemed sceptical, writing:

Treasurer Jim Chalmers declared last week that limiting the narrative to ‘ruling things in or ruling things out’ has had a ‘corrosive impact’ on policy debate.

Oh yes, how dare those nervous plebs seek clarity about the security of their savings!

Whispers have also arisen about the ‘not ruled out’ GST. Whether the government flirts with expanding the GST or outright raising it, both will render the Prime Minister’s tax-meme a lie.

‘The decisions we make in the 2020s will determine the sort of living standards and intergenerational justice that we have in the decades to come. I think there is a broad recognition of that…’ said Jim Chalmers.

It is interesting that we have a government obsessed with devising ways to rip money off the taxpayer instead of doing something sensible, such as encouraging productivity or, even better, addressing the extraordinary level of government waste.

This is why economic reform matters.

We’ve made a lot of progress together in our first term making our economy more productive, dynamic and resilient to help deliver a better standard of living for all Australians.

We know there’s more to do and that’s why the reform… pic.twitter.com/Rg5OKEvspk

— Jim Chalmers MP (@JEChalmers) June 18, 2025

Albanese and his mates are throwing billions upon billions of dollars away on other countries, foreign companies, idiotic subsidy schemes, infuriating salaries for faceless bureaucrats, nightmare projects (like the NDIS), along with God-only-knows how many union-driven projects that come in years late and over budget.

Where are the honest and transparent spreadsheets from the Treasurer about how much money he is spending on unnecessary vanity projects? On activist nonsense? On busy work for the live-in Labor hangers-on class?

The only thing Australians are learning about tax reform is that the harder they work, the more diligent the government becomes in its robbery of their bank account.

And heaven forbid someone take the government seriously about its please, please invest in super, you’re helping us lower our pension bill! only for the government to eye-off that $4 trillion pot of gold as if it were an inheritance for the government instead of Australia’s children.

‘Budget Repair’ appears to mean patching the deficit with other people’s money and stealing inter-generational wealth in a pre-grave robbing activity that is only half a step from UK Labour’s ghoulish inheritance taxes.

If Albanese and Chalmers want to talk about intergenerational justice, the first thing they need to do is lay off people’s savings and take a look at their own spending behaviour.

The Australian people did not cause the financial strife within the Treasury. Politicians did. And politicians should have to fix it by tightening their own belts instead of mugging citizens.

There is no secret to making citizens rich. We have known how to do it for thousands of years.

Smart Treasurers reward hard work and diligent saving with low taxes. The economy will boom, people will work harder, they won’t need as many handouts or services, and, contrary to socialist rhetoric, the government will get richer too.

To share the wealth, you have to let it be created.