Gerald Butts
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1,669 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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um versions of both, which is that, yeah, we probably should have more competition in the provision of food in the country.
Uh it's easy to say that.
It's hard to make it happen.
And it's also true that the government should be thinking of progressive ways to uh make people's household budgets a little more um uh to get them a little more revenue in their household budgets.
But I do
think that the macroeconomic factors, which are the only durable solution, uh tackling the macroeconomic factors, the only durable solution to an affordability crisis, is to figure out a way to get people, on the one hand, better paid for the work they do.
Um and on the other hand, more competition in the economy so that there is uh you know um more competition for their hard earned dollars once they make them.
And there's a whole panoply of policies that could make both sides better.
But it doesn't sell um I was gonna say newspapers that will date me.
Not that uh anybody suffering from the the affordability crisis would read about one and uh read about it in a newspaper to begin with.
Um
These things are not sexy, right?
And that's what I meant at the outset when you asked, is there anything the government can do about it tomorrow?
No.
But a dogged determination to develop an agenda that increases people's incomes and cuts their costs.
There are economic policies out there that do that, but they're fought every step of the way by entrenched interests that are that are well served by the current
um unfair system.
Yeah, for the most part that's true.
Although, you know, I feel compelled to revert to type here maybe and talk about during the inflationary period how much money oil and gas companies made, uh, and uh convinced everybody it was the carbon price.
It was ridiculous.
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