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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Greg Jericho

Britain’s trickle-down budget idiocy offers a clear lesson for Australia on our stage 3 tax cuts

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese looks on as treasurer Jim Chalmers speaks in parliament
Britain’s high-income tax cuts sound suspiciously like Australia’s stage 3 tax cuts. But thankfully the UK government has given Anthony Albanese a clear lesson on what not to do. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The current problems with the UK economy provide an indicator of some of the difficulties also facing Australia. But thankfully the UK government has given Anthony Albanese a clear lesson on what not to do.

It is rare to see such a blatant ripping away of the curtain to expose a fraudulent economic theory as we have seen this week. The British prime minister, Liz Truss, spoke last week to the UN general assembly of the glories of trickle-down economics, and told reporters that “lower taxes lead to economic growth, there is no doubt in my mind about that”.

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