Fucking ridiculous. There is no other way to describe this.
Printing allowance are indeed taxpayer money but Rudd/DoFD seem to be forgetting that Liberal voters are also taxpayers. The allowances are paid to MPs and Senators who have been
freely elected by taxpaying citizens. If taxpayers don't like smear campaigns then they shouldn't vote for politicians which run them. The policy as it stands is nothing short of censorship which restricts the ability of other parties to criticise the Government.
I strongly believe that it is the right and indeed the role of opposition parties to criticise the Government, this undermines that and should be rejected.
As an aside it is also worth noting that the banned words can all be accurately used to describe the Government:
The words Rudd's word police have banned:
Disgraceful
Dreadful
Inept
Mismanagement
Reckless
Recklessly
Incompetence
Incompetent
Irresponsible
Flawed
Unfairly
Disastrous
Neglect
Disregard