Opponents of new health tax need math

True to form, opponents of the new Employer Health Tax are leaping all over a report where the Victoria police chief states that his departments budget increase isn't large enough so he'll have to cut staff.

Let's look at this.

The city comes up with an additional $1.8 million and the EHT cuts into that by about $700k. So his effective increase is $1.1 million. Amiright?
So, explain why this amounts to a budget cut of $1.1m?


"Manak said council’s position would mean about a $1.1-million cut to the department’s core budget, including the loss of two officers working on integrated teams to help people with mental health and addictions issues"

I get that politics are at play here, but if you're not going to deal in facts, then y'all need to sit down.

My2bits.

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