February 10, 2023
“Boards sound alarm on Labor spending, intervention” (February 10) really has to be the final straw in responses to Jim Chalmers’ essay.
The reporting and commentary in The Australian Financial Review has been, quite frankly, embarrassing – for this newspaper, for the business “leaders”, and for Australia, as it confirms the suspicion that we are five to 10 years behind the rest of the world.
The free-market, neoliberal, Milton Friedman-led ideology has been over for ages. Even Friedman’s school acknowledges it’s over. If nothing else, the shellacking received by the Liberals at the last election should have told you it’s over.
The relentless bleating for “lower taxes” is the only idea business leaders have, the apparent solution to everything. No wonder we’re in trouble.
Morgan May 
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