Class war!

Get your pitchforks, comrades! Our glorious leader has declared a class war!

Well, what passes for a class war these days, anyway. The reported Labor tax plan will defer the tax cuts for people earning over $180,000 a year, to the tune of $2.9 billion.

The wealthiest Australians would pay $10 a week more tax under Labor than they would under the Coalition.

Mr Rudd denied Labor was engaged in a class war, saying his plan to flatten the tax system to three rates instead of the current four showed the opposition was proposing real tax reform.

This raises the question, did someone in the press gallery stick their hand up and ask "Mr Rudd, is this the first salvo in a class war?" If not, where have we gotten to where the minimum of fiscal prudence and investment in the country's future requires the leader to distance himself from a Bolshevik holocaust? $10 a week?

So, once the flames die down and the bodies of the landlords and bosses are all safely in their mass graves, I'm curious to learn more about this education credit. I'm in favour of any investment in education - so far, the "sound byte" version of sounds like a bonanza for laptop vendors, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Still, we're almost matching the Libs big cash giveaway. What a shame.