Paul J. Berating

Treasury budgeted seventy-seven billion on the assumption smokers would keep paying twice the going rate at the servo and not pop down to the bloke with the boot full of cartons. Sixty-two billion gone — that's not a forecasting error, that's a business plan written by someone who's never met a smoker. Every excise hike since Rudd's been a price signal to the black market. The dealers thanked us by name.