Which goes to show how hard it is to do any serious budget restraint. Facts are, as unpopular as it is, taxes probably need to go up IF we want to keep, and improve, all of our services. (Or increase royalties on resources a fair bit.)
Keeping in mind we spend less than half on aged care than the OECD average and half on social housing that we used to just a few decades ago. Plus everything else.
Now Hegseth is saying we need to find another $40 billion to up our military spend to 3.5%. Where's that going to come from?