The Commonwealth government’s mid-year budget update shows the deficit/debt problem is no closer to being resolved. In 2007-08 (the last year of budget surplus) the tax system generated revenue of 25 per cent of GDP, but now it generates 23.3 per cent. Meanwhile, spending has risen from 23.1 per cent to 25.2
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