The buzz and analysis from Monday’s budget is only just beginning. Analysts are crunching the numbers, assessing the policies and searching for what’s in it for them.Like any other financial package, there are pleasures and pain, incentives, tax cuts and new taxes. The Minister of Finance giveth and the Minister of Finance take away. ‘Twas ever thus.Barbadians are well aware there is no quick fix or magic wand to wave this economy back to prosperity.For the most part, we are a practical people. Most of us, while hoping for an ease after two years of pressure, frown on pie-in-sky promises and unrealistic measures that could push an already struggling economy into further peril.
