Parliamentary Budget Office calls out Labor’s ‘BS’ budget surplus projections
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Sky News host Paul Murray ridicules Labor's long-term budget forecasts, arguing the Parliamentary Budget Office has exposed a surplus built on unrealistic NDIS savings, public service cuts, and record bracket creep. “Of course, Jim Chalmers, he’s turned around and said, look, well, if people are angry now, they’ll get over it, even though they lied,” Mr Murray said. “It is a political document more than an economic document, and they move all the dials that they possibly can to get the best version of the story to get them through the night on the assumption that you won’t remember it next week, next month, or next year. “The Parliamentary Budget Office has stepped in and again done what I did on budget night was to call BS to the BS in the budget. “The federal government's return to a surplus ... relies on an unprecedented restraint on NDIS spending, meaning it won’t happen; shrinking the public service, which won’t happen; and allowing bracket creep to push the tax burden on wo
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