Only Jim Chalmers could butcher a tax cut
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Only Treasurer Jim “Chicken” Chalmers is so inept as to misfire tax cuts into lousy spending and a rate hike scare.
Westapc’s Red Book makes plain that is exactly what he has done.
Households are going to save the tax cuts. Westpac superb Red Book:
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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