Budget Fail

There is something really distasteful and perverse about the amount of attention the Australian press dedicates to analysing the government's annual budget. It's obscene in some undefined way, and offensive at some visceral level we can't quite define.

Maybe it's the implication that state tax and spending policies have such a huge sway in our everyday lives that we have to pay attention to them whether we like or not. Maybe it's how seriously the politicians take themselves while exhibiting a comprehensive level of stupidity about markets.

Either way, the whole thing makes us want to gag. Literally, the gorge is rising in our throat just thinking about having to analyse it. So we…