Cut emissions, not petrol tax; fund childcare, not beer. What economists want from next week's budget
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDOverwhelmingly, Australia’s top economists would rather the budget funds measures to cut carbon emissions than cuts income tax or company tax.
They are also dead against rumoured cuts to petrol tax and the tax on beer.
The Conversation’s pre-budget survey of a panel of 46 leading economists selected...
