Thursday, March 30, 2006

Taxed to the max theme

The Working for Families jingle, the touchy-feely, very-quickly-getting-on-everybody's nerves musical phrase telling you that twittish family will soon be in your living room too, was especially commissioned by our beloved government at a cost of $16,500.

I guess that's a drop in the bucket compared to the total campaign cost but it focusses the mind on the deadweight cost of redistributing income.

2 comments:

Oswald Bastable said...

My letterbox is near sagging with the weight of flyers advertising electonics goods.

Could this possibly be related?

Anonymous said...

About $15 million I think so far. What is truly frightening is how many people have swallowed the Labour myth that we can all get something for nothing.