Budget will show how shallow Liberal party's 'debt and deficit disaster' really was | Greg Jericho

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This budget looks set not only to be replete with spending commitments and tax cuts, but also to be the final nail in the coffin of the Liberal party’s scare mongering about the evils of debt and deficit. A few weeks ago, I suggested that because of unexpected increases in taxation revenue and with an election due in the next 12 months,