Sky News host Alan Jones says 'the government is going to have to have the guts to slash waste' to reduce the budget deficit but it must be done without the 'lazy growth model' of relying on immigration as a fiscal stop-gap.
Sky News host Alan Jones says "the government is going to have to have the guts to slash waste" to reduce the budget deficit but it must be done without the "lazy growth model" of relying on immigration as a fiscal stop-gap. "Spending is now 26 per cent of GDP. The Government has committed to revenue, correctly, at 23.9 per cent. That gap has to be closed," he said. "Three ways to do it. Increase taxes. Slash spending. Or grow the economy.
What we need government to tell us is how that's going to happen.
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