Opinion

Health and education spending is at record levels. This budget should have gone further on tax cuts

Simon Cowan
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:35am, first published October 10 2020 - 4:30am
The government has avoided longer-term reforms in this budget, despite announcing hundreds of billions of dollars in temporary measures. Picture: Shutterstock
The government has avoided longer-term reforms in this budget, despite announcing hundreds of billions of dollars in temporary measures. Picture: Shutterstock

The biggest story of the 2020 budget is not, surprisingly, the 12-figure record deficit. It is not the looming trillion dollars in debt. And it is certainly not any supposed unfairness.

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Simon Cowan

Simon Cowan

Canberra Times columnist

Simon Cowan is research director at the Centre for Independent Studies and a regular columnist for The Canberra Times.

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