David Ansara was featured in Polity on the Free Market Foundation’s reaction to the inadequate levels of austerity evident in the 2023 medium-term budget policy statement.
The finance minister’s sense of fiscal responsibility is welcome, but wholly insufficient given the scale of the crisis.
As we battle with a state that is running out of funds – but not out of things to spend the funds on – we must have a through conversation about what rights are and what they are not.
Some of us warned that with our high, structural unemployment rate, the government would not be able to get rid of this grant once it was introduced.
The corporatist state is the biggest threat to individual liberty that has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It would be better if we never had this SRD grant but now that we have it, the government has to end it as soon as possible.
Those who want the government to take responsibility for their healthcare should be free to do so, but under no circumstances must this mandate be interpreted as meaning government may dictate lifestyle choices to those who did not ask for their sovereignty over their own medical and healthcare affairs to be abrogated.
