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Friday’s Chorus: 'Show us the costings, Nicola!'
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TL;DR: In the 2011 and 2014 election campaigns then-National PM John Key shredded Labour Opposition leaders Phil Goff and David Cunliffe with the simple challenge to their tax revenue estimates: ‘Show me the money.’
Finance Minister Grant Robertson did the same last night in the finance spokespeoples’ election debate in Queenstown by targeting National’s refusal to release the modelling behind its plan to raise $2.4 billion from a 15% tax on foreign buyers’ purchases over $2 million. This came after an…
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