Alec Hogg: Tito’s real message – focus on your own circle of competence
This graph from Stanlib economist Kevin Lings encapsulates yesterday's Mini-Budget horror show: the gap between spending and income has been widening for a decade – lockdown simply accelerated the tragedy. Private citizens who consistently spend more than they earn get sequestrated. Companies applying similar idiocy go out of business. Governments get voted out of office. Eventually.
With R300bn less in tax revenues and State spending rocketing, this year the SA State python-mouth has blown past maximum elasticity. True, SA is not the only country in this pandemic-created boat. But few others suffer quite so restrictive a yoke of economic inflexibility. Tito remains hopeful SA will transform its way from penury. It's his last card.
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