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Josh Frydenberg defends the indefensible with JobKeeper

11 September 2021

1:54 PM

11 September 2021

1:54 PM

How do you defend the indefensible? You give a politician a pen and some newspaper column centimetres. 

I tend not to read farce or fiction so did not read Josh Frydenberg’s opinion piece in the Australian yesterday, but a wise legal scholar asked me my thoughts so I just cast my eye. 

Treasurer Frydenberg’s piece sought to justify the extravagant waste in JobKeeper program – JobKeeper did the job it was meant to do, and quickly.   

I was immediately minded to the words of Thomas Sowell who wrote that “[T]he first lesson of economics is the management of scarcity.

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