Threadbare Coalition agenda needs a burning platform on bracket creep
If Peter Dutton is victorious, the budget repair rhetoric will need tangible policy proposals to have a serious conversation with voters in the next three years about tax reform.
During the caretaker period before each election, the nation’s public servants prepare an “incoming government brief”, or red book and blue book, for each side in case they are successful; the other is shredded. Here is one expert’s take on the Coalition’s platform:
I never apply the same standards to an opposition as I do to a government. It’s not fair, but it’s also not prudent. Given all the advantages of incumbency, a uniform hurdle will trip over far too many oppositions that ought to form government.
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Steven Hamilton is assistant professor of economics at George Washington University and visiting fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU.
