Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has taken aim at Jim Chalmers ahead of the federal budget next week.

He says the treasurer does not understand how Australians are being “smashed” with the cost of living.

“Like so many other left-wing governments, when they run out of their money, they go after yours,” he told Gary Hardgrave.

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