Repay debts,
Well until reecently he didn't have many of those...
increase taxes proportionally to gain back the lost money,
BAP BOW!
At a time fiscal stimulus is required you want to INCREASE taxes?
What KRudd should be doing instead of throwing money at his own pet industries is giving OUR money (you do realise that all Govt money is really ours that we have given to them right?) back to us so WE determine where it will be spent, WE determine how the longer term stimulus of recurring expenditure will apply and as a result industries that customers want to survive will survive, those that are out of date or outmoded will not.
ration out the billions he plans on spending in reasonable ways, perhaps scaling down the sheer amount of spending just a tad. I do like the idea of rail and broadband improvements, but it's one thing to throw billions of dollars at the idea, and another to actually get results and implement something worthwhile.
Very good call.
Nationbuilding infrastructure for the future is what is required.
Given we are currently going through teh debate about how we will afford the future upgrading required to meet our electricity needs perhaps he could have targetted that.
Perhaps he could look at hospitals.
Instead they played partisan politics and allocated cash based on political rather than logical analysis. NSW is a lost cause at the State level so they get nothing. Think of that while you wait your place in the gall stone queue GC.
I guess I'm just dubious that all of this money is going to amount to nothing. Far too often have we been promised rail upgrades, etc, in the last year and they've all been scrapped after millions have been spent on their planning. I'm still yet to see Labor do anything worthwhile.
The aqueduct...
If he's going to throw billions at certain areas, he should start by encouraging the respective areas to find the right people for the job. Much of the NSW government could do with a bit of a polish.
Outsource everything that can be outsourced. Simple as that.
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