Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
The professionals actually think and act like our Government has no fiscal crisis at all
Mōrena. Long stories short; here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, September 6:
* The Government keeps arguing its cuts on spending in real-percapita terms in health, education, child welfare, housing and public transport are needed to both pay for ‘income tax relief due to a cost of living crisis’ and to deal with ‘the dire state of the Government books we inherited.’ It also argues there’s ‘no money left’ when saying it will have to use private finance, tolls, water levies and congestion charges to pay for new roads…
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