May 2009
Where has all the revenue gone?
Tax cuts for the rich damage the Australian economy and disadvantage the average Australian.
Where has all the revenue gone? To tax cuts for the rich!
Right up until the end of the resources boom and the onset of the global financial and economic crisis, the government was flush with money, a result of the virtually continual ‘surprises’ as economic growth, and especially government revenue, came in way over budget forecasts in each of the years from 2003-04 to 2007-08. By
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