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Ryan Bridge: Budget 2025 will be frugal, but will Budget 2026?
You can’t say we weren’t warned Nicola Willis would be taking to government spending like a butcher to a fresh carcass.
She’s been saying it for months. Yesterday she halved the operating allowance to $1.3 billion.
All this because she wants to do what she said she’s do, and that’s balance the books by 2029.
The recession’s cut her tax take so you either push your surplus out or you trim your spending.
Labour, of course, says this is austerity, it’s bad, and we should spending more not less. Well, we know where that got us, waist deep in our own shite. Shite that Willis is now wading her way…
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