IDASA is of the view that the 2010 MTBPS as presented is fairly conservative and that the South African budget policy in response to the recession consists broadly of maintaining pre-recession public expenditure commitments in the face of likely declining tax revenue. According to IDASA, it is necessary that the budget deficit and consequent borrowing requirements are permitted to increase. In other words, budget policy is becoming fairly counter-cyclical through the use of automatic stabiliser of tax revenue fluctuation.