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Hipkins challenges long-held Labour view Government must stay below 30% of GDP
Mōrena. Long stories short; here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Monday, September 9:
* Chris Hipkins widens Labour’s tax debate to include the 30% limit on the size of Government.
* Chris Bishop wants plenty of bipartisan infrastructure investment, but remains a small Government and pro-markets guy, which makes that hard.
* In solutions, National’s $1.8 billion investment of borrowed Government money to kick-start the Ultra Fast Broadband network in 2010 has been a model of public investment in a network infrastructure that…
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