Governance
A government that justifies all spending and revenue raising
Jim Chalmers has suggested businesses should justify price
increases.
The government should justify why they take our money from
us and spend it on what they call “essential services” – including a large and
expensive bureaucracy.
The government should have an open zero-based budget approach in annual expenditure planning, justifying every dollar spent. Explaining their
revenue-raising plan to fund the expenditure – including revenue raised from
bracket creep.
It is the “peoples” money the government takes and spends or
re-distributes. We are owed a clear and transparent rationale for all taxes and
spending – not obfuscation and political doublespeak.
1 March 2023 by Glenn Barnes
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