Green vs Liberal Democrat on economic issues

Should employers be required to pay men and women the same salary for the same job? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes The gender pay gap is now 17.3 per cent or about 25 per cent including bonuses, and over the last two decades it’s gone up. It’s caused by discrimination, unequal caring responsibilities and by the undervaluing of feminised industries like nursing and teaching. The Greens are committed to changing those factors and closing the gender pay gap.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No, the government should never determine what a private business should pay employees The Liberal Democrats believe there are too many laws, taxes, regulations, mandatory licensing systems, hand-outs, rebates, off-sets, agencies and too much government in generalSource

Should workers continue to be paid double wages on Sunday? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No Source

Should welfare recipients be tested for drugs? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: No, and drugs should be treated as a health problem not a crime Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Yes Source

Should the government raise the federal minimum wage? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes The Australian Greens want: An industrial relations system that protects and enhances the rights of employees and workers by: maintaining a legislated minimum standard for pay, annual leave and hours of work that protects all employees and workers.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No Abolish the ban on low paid work, referred to as the minimum wage.Source

Should the government raise taxes on the rich? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes No tax cuts for the richSource

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No The LDP believes that taxing income is perverse. It discourages Australians from working and saving, impedes investment, and imposes unnecessary compliance costs on individuals and businesses.Source

If their projects involve water, should coal companies be subject to additional government regulations? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes Coal mining and unconventional gas — including coal seam gas, shale gas, tight gas and shale oil mining and underground coal gasification — pose unacceptable risks to Australia's land, water and industries, such as agriculture, grazing and tourism.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) believes the energy market should operate in the private sector, competing in an environment of limited regulation which does not seek to pick winners. Government is intrinsically incapable of balancing the different social, economic and environmental values of water, while politicising water divides the community and leads to both irrational shortages and surpluses. As far as possible, the LDP will abolish government ownership and control of water. The LDP will establish mechanisms for trading water that ensure it is priced in accordance with its value. The LDP will abolish mandatory water requirements on private property, such as an obligation to install water tanks. This is not an area that warrants government intervention. The LDP supports the right of private property-holders to sue others for nuisance, trespass, negligence or other civil wrongs that cause damage to rights to collect and use water. The LDP supports the recycling of water for human consumption, subject ...Source

Should there be fewer or more restrictions on current welfare benefits? ^{stats discuss}

Green voters: Fewer Source

Liberal Democrat voters: More Source

Should the government raise or lower the tax rate for corporations? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Maintain the current rate “The Greens will not support any attempt to cut the company tax rate for big business,” Mr Bandt said.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Lower The LDP believes that the best course for Australia is a low tax future. The LDP believes that taxing income is perverse. It discourages Australians from working and saving, impedes investment, and imposes unnecessary compliance costs on individuals and businesses.Source

Do you support Malcolm Turnbull’s $50 billion corporate tax cut? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: No Source

Liberal Democrat voters: Yes Source

Should the government subsidise farmers? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes Link eligibility for subsidies to ecologically sound land management practices to further incentivise the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and technologies.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No And getting cheaper land and other inputs is also within our power if we rid ourselves of government handouts to inefficient farmers who are tying up agricultural resources.Source

Should the Australian government continue to invest billions of dollars into the development of the National Broadband Network? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes The Australian Greens strongly support the fibre-tothe- home National Broadband Network (NBN) currently being built by NBN Co. Linking Australia through fast broadband holds out the promise of increases in productivity, innovation and global cultural exchangeSource

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No The LDP supports an immediate end to state and federal government ownership of: The National Broadband Network Liberal Democrats NBN Plan: (1) Start with $40 billion dollars. (2) Return roughly $4000 tax cut over the next 10 years to all taxpayers to pay for internet services they actually want (or gasp, something else they think is more important). (3) Let the internet develop organically like it was designed to do, keep politicians like 'Great Firewall of Australia' Conroy and Turnbull away from it. https://www.facebook.com/LDP.australia/posts/10151391997442672Source

Do you support a universal basic income program? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes Reform of the income support system to ensure a guaranteed adequate income for all, including simplification of pensions and allowances into a universal guaranteed adequate income (GAI) scheme.Source

Liberal Democrat voters: No Source

Do you believe labor unions help or hurt the economy? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Help Free, independent and democratic unions are an essential pillar of a civil society.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Hurt Industrial relations laws hurt employees and employers and cause unemployment and dependency. They only help union leaders, lawyers and bureaucrats.Source

Should the government use economic stimulus to aid the country during times of recession? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes While government finances must be sustainable over the long-term, it is appropriate to stimulate the economy during economic downturns and save during economic booms. Government financing should be managed to increase public equity.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No The government’s $42 billion “stimulus” package will cost Australians $466,667 per job created, assuming it even reaches its target of 90,000. Every Australian will be stimulating the economy to the tune of $2,000. More accurately, taxpayers will be paying around $5,000 each of their own money.Source

Should the government ban negative gearing? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes Remove negative gearing for all non-business assets purchased by individuals, funds, trusts, partnerships and companies.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No Source

Should pension payments be increased for retired government workers? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes People with fewer assets will be given more support, and some people with substantial assets will have their pension reduced.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No Source

Should the government provide tax incentives to private companies to keep jobs within the country? ^{stats discuss}

Green voters: Yes Source

Liberal Democrat voters: Yes Source

Should bankers’ bonuses be capped at 100% of their pay? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: No, but they should be capped at 500% of the average weekly earnings. The salaries of bank bosses would be capped and their bonuses limited to five times the average weekly earnings of their workers under a “radical” new proposal from the Greens. A week before the banking royal commission begins, Greens treasury spokesman Peter Whish-Wilson said the minor party believed it was now time to cap the bulging pay packets of banking bosses. Under the plan, bank executive salaries would be capped at 10 times average weekly earnings of workers at the same institutions, with their bonuses – which often exceed their salaries – limited to five times average weekly earnings.Source

Liberal Democrat voters: No Source

Should the government make cuts to public spending in order to reduce the national debt? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: No Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Yes There are three steps necessary to bring the Australian economy back to health: (1) tax reform and deregulation to boost economic growth; (2) cut government over-spending to immediately bring the budget back to surplus and start paying down the national debt; and (3) structural reforms that ensures government spending is sustainable in the long run. Source

Should the government add or increase tariffs on products imported into the country? ^{stats discuss}

Green voters: No Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No The Liberal Democrats support free international trade in goods, services and capital. It is a simple fact that Australians benefit from free trade and foreign investment. We are a pro-trade party. In Australia, other small parties hide behind the rhetoric of ‘fair trade’ and protectionist populism. However, the welfare of Australians is not improved by xenophobia and irrational economics.Source

Do you support an increase in the mineral resources rent tax? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: Yes Greens leader Christine Milne has slammed the Mineral Resources Rent Tax repeal in the Senate this morning, saying the “super profits” earned by miners ought to be taxed and paid back into the community.Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: No A coalition of political groups including the Palmer United Party, the Democratic Labour Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and Family First all support repealing Labor’s MRRT tax after Australia’s new Senate begins sitting after July 1st.Source

Should citizens be allowed to save or invest their money in offshore bank accounts? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: No Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Yes The LDP supports free international trade in goods, services and capital. It is a simple fact that Australians benefit from free trade and foreign investment.Source

Do you support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? ^{stats discuss}

Green voters: Yes Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Yes "The TPP is about trade; as in facilitating more of it. It will allow Australian producers to sell more dairy products, wine, steel and automotive parts at better prices."Source

Should the government break up Amazon, Facebook and Google? ^{stats discuss}

Green voters: No Source

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Should the government reinstate the Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: No Malcolm Turnbull should establish a national, broad-based anti-corruption watchdogSource

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Yes Since Labor abolished the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), the number of working days lost to industrial disputes in the construction industry has increased by 34%.Source

Should the government classify Bitcoin as a legal currency? ^{stats discuss}

Green’s answer: No Source

Liberal Democrat’s answer: Yes The Liberal Democrats will remove these and other restrictions to ensure that new and old forms of non-government money, from gold to Bitcoin, are allowed a chance to prosper as a store of value and means of transaction. Opening up the Australian dollar to competing currencies will ensure that Australians have alternatives to prevent their savings and income being eroded by the hidden and insidious effects of inflation.Source

Should the government acquire equity stakes in companies it bails out during a recession? ^{stats discuss}

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