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Unsustainable spending: day of reform is coming

I’ve Been Thinking: Government spending more than it receives for as long as the Treasury can forecast is unsustainable.

These Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) forecasts are always too rosy. The 2017 PREFU did not predict a pandemic. Other Treasury election forecasts failed to predict the Christchurch earthquake or the GFC. Unpredictable shit happens. Long before 2034, perhaps as early as next year,

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Richard Prebble Wed, 23 Sep 2020
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