This next bit from Angus Taylor is straight out of the Institute for Public Affairs, which is one of the Liberal party’s most favouritist think tanks ever – the IPA to Liberal party pipeline works better than most digestive tracts.

Taylor:

“Australian small businesses have been crowded out by a ballooning public service and a rising cost of Labor’s red and green tape. “

I’ll let Grog’s take this one:

Actually, one of the big booms of “small business” has been in the health and care sector – primarily associated with the NDIS. This is because care and services that used to be done by the public sector are now funded by the NDIS but done by “private sector businesses” – often care and service workers who are either sole traders or working in small businesses. Far from “crowding out” public spending on NDIS is “crowding in” small business.