Gordon Campbell: On Nicola Willis And Her Surplus Fetish
According to the Treasury, we’ll have to borrow $17.1 billion by June 2028, to help fund (among other things) a nearly $10B tax cut programme, also paid for by slashing billions – and 240 line items – from our public services. Conventional political wisdom to the contrary, there is little public support for this slash-burn-and-borrow approach to economic management.