Although many people are aware that government expenditure will exceed government revenue for the foreseeable future, it can be difficult to translate billion-dollar figures in the budget into figures which have personal relevance.
Things improved a bit in 2018 when I leveraged my Senate crossbench vote to convince the government to include per capita data on tax, debt, and interest payments in the budget papers.
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