ACT debt out of control

Updated April 23 2018 - 8:19pm, first published June 1 2015 - 7:13pm

Congratulations to Kirsten Lawson on her excellent article "Barr caught in budget bind" (Forum, May 30, p1). Surely, the present ACT government is the most irresponsible one in living memory. On Tuesday, Andrew Barr will announce a deficit of over $770million. And he still wants to spend millions (light rail, Parkes Way, a park by the lake and more). Rates will increase to every household to pay for it all. Result: a closure of business in the city due to customers' lack of spending money.

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