
Conversations, with Peter Costello AC, Former Treasurer of Australia
John Anderson: Conversations
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How to Create a Constituency for Balanced Budgets
"There's no constituency for balanced budgets anymore," he says. "If you let these things go by default, of course nobody will sort of put their hand up for it." 'Interest rates are most rapidly growing and the interest costs are the debt' He adds that we always used to think we should spend at least 2% of GDP on defense.
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