The government claims it had a good week last week, increasing taxes on savings, raising effective marginal tax rates on middle income families and generally behaving like the Light Green Labor Party it seems to want to be. Yet its broken promises, tax hikes and spending cuts will deliver a paltry $6 billion over the four year forward estimates while the deficit is projected to be $84 billion over that period.
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