AM:
The Treasurer said yesterday that, if it - I think actually it was the Prime
Minister who said that, if the GST has mugged the economy, then wouldn't you
expect to see an impact in the services sector where there's been actually a
big jump in economic growth? You're in a sector there that had no indirect taxes
before which now has a 10 per cent GST. Wouldn't you expect to see a sign there
if it is mugging the economy?
SIMON CREAN:
And don't you think that, if people are forced to pay 10 per cent more to the
Government that growth should happen in it? I mean a sector that had no tax
in it and people having to pay 10 per cent additional on everything, you'd expect
it to grow, wouldn't you?