Opposition Leader Andrew Taylor’s budget reply subjected the electorate to a barrage of populist banalities about a freer society, intergenerational fraud, accountancy trickery and an assault on aspiration (“ Angus Taylor delivers budget reply speech ”, May 15). It was not so much devoid of proposals as of details about some of the policies. Taylor’s promise to index tax to inflation is a worthy one but also very costly, posing the question of how the billions will be found to implement it. Other proposals like the restriction of welfare benefits for non-citizens, abolishing Labor’s climate and housing agencies, making nuclear part of energy policy, massive cuts to immigration and linking housing to immigration will be met with strong opposition. Taylor will have a hard job convincing the electorate that his ideas have any merit, and that he is not just emulating Pauline Hanson. Ron Sinclair, Windradyne Angus Taylor delivers his budget reply.…