10 years to break the budget, 10 years to fix it

The budget has been marred by a decade of fiscal incompetence. Cleaning up the mess should be Tony Abbott's first point of order -- and the deficit levy is a step in the right direction.

The deficit levy, the one that seems to have become an accepted certainty in three days of leaking while remaining coyly unconfirmed, should become a permanent tax increase.

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