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The Hodgman plan: Will it work?
Will Hodgman’s future plans are at last coming under a little more scrutiny.
The coming election, we are told, is a once in a generation event, a turning point for Tasmania.
The Liberals have, to their credit, unveiled a plan in each of the past few years in response to the government’s budget.
The latest plan titled a Plan for a Brighter Future issued in May 2013 contained the Libs’ plans for 2013/14 and the next 3 years of the forward estimate.
The plan is based on the governments’ budgets for those years. In essence the Libs are planning to cut outlays by about 1% and redirect about 1.5% of wasteful spending to other initiatives.
That’s all.
It’s sometimes touted the Libs have identified $500 million worth of savings. But that’s the four year total. Each year it’s about $125 million.
The government have no plan, we are told. Only the Libs have, a fully costed plan, a once in a generation change to fix the Labor Green Budget mess.
Will it work?
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