Debt by a thousand cuts, however it’s sold

It’s a dangerous endeavour to comment on a budget the morning after it was presented high on pageant but low on detail.

There are always ‘bits and bobs’ in the printed text that the minister deliberately forget to mention in the speech.

The bottom line is this is another negative budget, more focused on satisfying political needs than dealing with he needs of the country. It is, to borrow and mangle a cliché, debt by a thousand cuts.