Whatever else one can say about tonight’s federal Budget, at least Josh Frydenberg has held the line firm against the utopian idiocy of the high tax brigade (or as they’d call themselves, friends of fair social spending).

There’s been a powerful force in Australian politics gathered around Morry Schwartz’s publications, The Guardian, The Australia Institute, the ABC (of course), the welfare lobby, the Greens and the sillier sectors of the ALP and its affiliated think (or maybe want) tanks ever since the GFC, Thomas Piketty’s celebrity and the rise of Bernie Sanders and his handmaidens, AOC and The Squad that have...