Trump digs an ever deeper hole
President Trump has been surprisingly measured on foreign policy. But almost nothing else is reassuring.
Bank levy an arbitrary money grab
The one argument that might justify the budget's shock tax on the big five banks is the one argument rejected by Scott Morrison
Only business can fix the budget
The budget relies on revenue from wealth creators to get back to surplus. But it prefers bigger counter-productive taxes to more incentive.
We are in a tax reform dead end
Taxing our growth prospects simply cannot end well
The monumental spend has to end
Every year the budget papers state the strategy of medium-term fiscal policy surpluses on average over the course of the economic cycle. It is literally incredible
Corporate Australia has to fight back
If a Coalition government won't stand up for wealth creators, the wealth creators will have to collectively stand up for themselves.
The wrong budget for our prosperity
Mr Morrison's 2017 budget draws the wrong lessons and sends the wrong messages.
Fiscal fiction of tax levies
Levies for worthy causes are used to drive a rising tax burden and elevated spending
Bank tax is a populist whim
The government undercuts the tax-cutting principles of its own growth agenda and muddies the waters on tax reform.
Treasurer delivers the wrong budget
There is little in this budget about incentives-based economic reform to help structural change and reform that looks at outcomes rather tha...
