Taxes vs. public goods Round 6737
John Quiggin wrote an interesting op/ed in the Fin Review today, which I imagine will eventually surface on his blog. Quiggin picked up on recent remarks by Lindsay Tanner about discipline in the budget process. “Efficiency dividends” are much in [...]
In defence of Kevin Rudd's stimulus package
It’s been suggested – apropos of the title of my last post on the federal government’s stimulus plan – that I was expressing cynicism by calling the piece “Never get between Australians and a pile of money”. Actually, that was [...]
Never get between Australians and a pile of money
THE Opposition will vote against the Government’s $42 billion financial stimulus package, Malcolm Turnbull says. “Someone has to stand up for fiscal discipline,” Mr Turnbull told the House of Representatives. “Someone has to stand up for levels of debt for [...]
Corporatism redux?
There’s a bit of chat around the shop today that one of the mooted new stimulus measures the Rudd government might undertake – bringing forward tax cuts and LITO changes for low income earners – could be a way of [...]
Stimulus, round 2 – where might it go?
While the government isn’t committing to anything, there’s speculation that another “stimulus package” is in the works. If so, how should that stimulus be delivered? Malcolm Turnbull – in the context of another incoherent ramble on the economy – wants [...]
Blindsided?
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
[Via Gary Sauer-Thompson] Dennis Shanahan in The Australian claims that the Liberal decision to vote against the stimulus package: has blind-sided the Government over the $42 billion stimulus package… left Kevin Rudd politically flat-footed and frustrated…and given the Opposition an [...]
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