Bentley Logan, Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats promote individual responsibility, reduced government and lower taxation under the Freedom Manifesto.
This allows individuals to live their lives free from government overreach.
The Liberal Democrats will allow small business on the Peninsula to provide increased job security and retain locals to establish productive businesses without relying upon increased subsidies or leaving to work outside the Central Coast.
Our current tax laws negatively impact small business through increasing interest rate rises, wage increases, mandatory superannuation and high energy prices.
We will deliver lower taxation.
Individuals will receive $40,000 tax free threshold and flat 20% income tax above.
A company tax rate of 20% on profit and no tax on reinvested profits.
Combined with voluntary superannuation and no minimum wage cap for employers and employees to achieve flexibility and be competitive.
People are concerned that the government's encroachment upon individual choice is creating discrimination under temporary public health orders which are reshaping the society we live in.
We will end mandates and ensure that the harms of lockdowns are not repeated.
Small business can be sustainable and competitive by removing the regulatory burden of red tape and green tape of environmental restrictions.
The Liberal Democrats advocate for cheap and reliable energy using our existing resources now, not for the ever increasing higher costs of electricity that we will experience domestically and internationally with the pursuit of renewable energy targets and net zero.
The promotion of a free energy market to remove climate alarmist ideology and overregulation will provide certainty for everyone now.
SOURCE:
Media statement, 12 May 2022
Bentley Logan, Liberal Democrats