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    All talk and no trousers

    May 30, 2021 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    The differences between the Government’s annual Budget and the average person’s list of New Year resolutions have become so minimal, in the sense of likely compliance levels, it’s time for a reckoning.

    To be fair, though Budgets aren’t the holy writ they used to be, they still wheel out the big bucks. Even the most platitudinous items in them are backed with dizzying sums of money. It’s just that for a confounding eddy of factors beyond a modern government’s control, lots of those items can’t actually proceed within the Budget year, and it’s frustrating that this is never admitted to.

    A few straightforward things

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