My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer. Minister, the Australian Financial Review recently reported:

The federal and state government spending splurge has hit the highest level since the end of World War II …

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More than half of voters now rely on governments for most of their income, through public-sector wages, welfare benefits or subsidies …

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Four in five jobs created in the past two years have been in the non-market sector …

My question is: is our economy just one giant taxpayer funded vote-buying rort?