A few weeks ago, a Deakin University academic, Martin Hirst, made some interesting comments about the politics and economics of class warfare and redistribution. He correctly noted that the accusations of class warfare by Coalition politicians and newspaper journalists against the ALP in relation to the recent budget are clearly overblown.
The usual rhetoric of socialism, class warfare, envy, punishing success, neglecting wealth creation and so on were bandied about.
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