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KiwiStack Live with Bernard Hickey and Chloe Swarbrick on the Green fiscal plan
I interviewed Green Party Co-Leader Chloe Swarbrick this evening about the party’s fiscal plan for Election 2026. The full interview is above and available for all.
We talked about why the Green Party had scaled back its wealth tax, whether it would have to increase it a later date to fully deliver on its welfare ambitions, and whether the Public Finance Act (Section 26G) should be replaced (and with what).
The full transcript is below.
I referred in the interview to posts by Elliot Crossan and Ganesh R Ahirao about the various parties fiscal plans, and also referred to interviews I’ve done…
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