Sky News Political Editor aclennell says the budget next month will see “big deficits out as far as the eye can see”, adding an even bigger deficit than the $184 billion we saw in the budget update in July”.
|Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says the budget next month will see “big deficits out as far as the eye can see”, adding an even bigger deficit than the $184 billion we saw in the budget update in July”.
“The political research tells the Federal Government at this stage in the crisis, the deficit figure does not even matter - all rules can be broken - and with the government indicating bringing forward income tax cuts and business investment tax breaks to stimulate the economy, it looks like even more spending is in store,” he said.
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