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Luxon stumbles into toxic privatisation debate
Long stories short, the top six things in our political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, January 29 are:
* PM Christopher Luxon has either allowed himself or has been forced into a politically unpopular debate ahead of next year’s election about privatising state houses, parts of the health sector, power companies and polytechs;
* Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis have begun framing the issue as ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) to asset sales to raise funds for public hospitals, schools and roads, by (unnecessarily) cordoning off taxes on capital income or the…
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