Howard and Costello’s tax cuts remind me of a television ad that played when I was about 15 in which a deathly withered geezer gives his grandson $6 and sagely advising ‘Spend it wisely’. The ad advised the best use of your easily won but hard to replace funds (your income being your miserly grandfather) for your two week school holidays was to go bumper bowling. Queue flashing lights and extreme zooming. $6 over two weeks, one day of bumper bowling. Bumper bowling is not really very fun, and if you went on the first day, well, it sucked to be you. Incidentally, at the time, $6 would have bought from the supermarket, though not the kiosk or servo, enough Paddlepops to have allowed one a day almost for the duration.
Setting aside the obvious problems of tax cuts economically with a booming economy and all, it would appear Howard has already sent out the reserves mistaking them for artillery? A $34b promise you would have thought would have been played at the opportune time; I doubt that time was the first day of the election. It is a long six week election, and longer if you have no finances. Howard has already spent most his money.
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I would have bought the paddlepops. Back then if there was a lick'a'prize comp and you bought a paddlepop every second or third one had a free paddlepop, thereby compounding your consumption of paddlepops.
These days it's all "second prize draw". Screw Streets.
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