Opposition leader Tony Abbott fires up in Budget reply THE average family would be at least $600 a year better off under a Coalition government with Tony Abbott promising to deliver all Labors tax cuts, household compensation payments and pension increases while scrapping the carbon tax. But workers will have to wait two years longer to get the promised rise to the superannuation levy form 9 per cent to 12 per cent. And people on benefits would have their $210 a year special payments taken away from them as he declared a "budget emergency." Aiming his pre-election budget reply speech directly at the family wallet, the Opposition leader pledged to lower the cost of living with a $4 billion tax and cash splash to households. He would reverse his decision to scrap the tripling of the tax-free threshold, keep the fortnightly family carbon compensation payments and keep the rise in the pension. At the same time, family bills would also go down, he claimed, with the scrapping of the carbon tax. To pay for it all, however, Mr Abbott said he would take a fresh axe to government spending and other handouts - with $5 billion in extra savings - while likely keeping the $43 billion in savings announced by Treasurer Wayne Swan in Tuesday's budget. That would mean that the baby bonus would go, as well as other promised tax cuts beyond 2015. But Mr Abbott said these measures may be now necessary because of the Government's mismanagement of the economy. The Coalition cuts include previously announced policies such as the axing of 12000 public service jobs, the scrapping of green loans schemes and rescinding the Government's decision to lift the humanitarian intake of refugees from 13750 to 20,000 a year. But new measures would include scrapping Labor's twice yearly supplementary allowance of $210 to people on benefits which was to be funded from the mining tax and was to cost $1.1 billion. Mr Abbott would also freeze the rise in the current 9.25 per cent superannuation guarantee levy until 2015-16, meaning the full rise to 12 per cent would be delayed for two years - and saving $1 billion a year. Mr Abbott said said he would keep the announced spending on Labor's National Disabilities Insurance Scheme DIS - estimated to be $52 billion over 10 years. But he confirmed the Coalition would scrap the $7 billion Gonski school funding reforms, and instead seek a new deal with the States to deliver better teachers. He also flagged scrapping other Labor spending measures, but would not specify which ones. However, Mr Abbott did not address how he would pay for his generous Paid Parental Leave scheme nor address other structural problems in the budget. "Many of the measures in (Wayne Swan's) budget are objectionable, the attacks on Medicare, abolition of the baby bonus which the government had promised never to touch...," he said. Hence the Coalition may decide not to oppose any of them, doesn't commit to reverse any of them, and reserves the right to implement all of them in government, as short term emergency measures to deal with the budget crisis Labor has created. Mr Abbott said within a year of government he would deliver a white paper on tax reform - which unlike Labor's would include the GST - and a white paper for reforms to the payments systems between the States and the Commonwealth. But he would seek a mandate at an election before seeking to introduce any changes. "It will take time to undo all the damage this government has done," Mr Abbott said. The Government had demanded that Mr Abbott provide last night, the detail of how he would plug what it claims is a $70 billion black hole in the Coalition costings. "The carbon tax will go but no one's personal tax will go up and no one's fortnightly pension or benefit will go down," he pledged. This will strengthen our economy - because there'll be one less tax hitting Australian businesses but not their overseas competitors. And it will help families - because you'll have tax cuts funded by smaller government, not by taking money out of one pocket to put it in the other.