No need atp.This Govt digging a deeper and deeper hole as it desperately drags funds from everywhere to make the irresponsible tax cuts.Carnage ahead.
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‘Absolute nonsense’: Chris Hipkins slams Christopher Luxon’s $200b hole claim
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Hipkins said there was no hole in the plan, saying the former Government had been “very clear that as every Government has been, that [the plan] gets funded successively in three-year plans”.
The same humungous Transport hole that Labour were going to dump untold road taxes etc on all to cover ? ;)
What a silly disconnected spinning little twit ;)
It sounds very correct that Labour had orchestrated a Huge Financial hole with few options going ahead when this sort of thing comes out & the expected denials. What was Parker proposing before he got his cakehole jammed shut in a hurry before the election ? ;)
No wonder NZ Inc dumped Hipkins & Labour on seeing what was coming after chapters of incompetence ;)
The things you regularly tear into Labour for, are exactly the same things National have been guilty of.
Prior to the election just about every economist said National's numbers don't add up, they can't fund all the promises, & give tax cuts, but the great unwashed ignored the economists, instead eagerly swallowed the bait & now we're witnessing Luxon & Willis hard out back peddling, preparing voters to accept they won't be able to keep their promises.
e.g. the last National govt took exactly the same approach to funding land transport projects, & every govt before them for decades.
When Stephen Joyce made a list of projects during the last National govt, there was no detail on how they would be funded past the first few years either, just the same as Labour.
The $200 billion hole Luxon's talking about is funding for like to have projects way into the future.
Do you really think this coalition govt will not make its own plans for projects in the future which have all the details of how they will be funded already sorted!
Remember the advice about throwing stones in glasshouses.
Here's to all the Ardern's devotees :
Ardern in the USA: Harvard's Kennedy School should be using her as a Case Study of the Dangers of Charisma
Having left Kiwis the legacy of a cost-of-living crisis, falling education standards for our poorest children & racial division, former PM Ardern is now shacked up in the Kennedy School at Harvard University, enjoying the pleasures of being on the receiving end of the University's $US 60 billion endowment. She recently gave a rousing speech there, saying the secret to great government policy is to "bring in the public". Did the out-of-touch Harvard folks not hear about the landslide defeat her Labour Party just suffered because it was hard to find anyone she brought with her? Nearly every policy she enacted has been reversed these past months because the public slam-dunk rejected them.
Ardern frequently attacked the 1980s market reforms of Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble & company, saying they had not brought in the public & were a disaster. Yet those reforms, be it an independent Central Bank, lower personal income tax rates, GST, elimination of farmer subsidies, floating dollar & more, are still in place 40 years later - whereas it's hard to find a single Ardern "reform" still there one year after she left office. Her government turned the vaccinated against the unvaccinated; Māori against non-Māori; rich against poor; farmer against environmentalist. Her motto became "divide & conquer"; not "bring in the public". Big Media are desperate to paint Luxon, Seymour & Peters as dividers. But we, the people, know the truth. The seeds of division were laid and cultivated by Ardern.
Harvard's Kennedy School of blah-blah should be ashamed of itself for becoming a place that jumps on bubbles, even after they've burst, where the faculty hire former politicians whose partisan views align with their own. Its seminars now resemble group therapy sessions, lacking in academic integrity. The School is not searching for the truth, which is meant to be the ethos of a university. So what was the lesson of Ardern's time in politics? She was perhaps the most charismatic leader NZ has ever known - a Case Study of a long line of world politicians who've led their country to ruin yet for a time were wildly embraced by the public due to their charisma. She relied on (terrible) advice & saw her job as "selling it to the public", which she did with extraordinary talent. But that advice led to never-ending lockdowns even after most of our population were vaccinated (because Prof. Michael Baker advised elimination was "sustainable"), spiraling debt, more monopolies, unaffordable prices and inflation. Ardern gained personal mojo & success - yet cost the nation its mojo & success. We must regain it fast and get back to where we once belonged.
Opinion of :
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics.
Latest TV1 Poll :
National 38% +1%
Labour 28%
Greens 12% -2%
ACT 8% -1%
NZF 6%
TMP 4% +2%
TOP 2%
And here's big move :
Hapless Hipkins 15% (down 10%)
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National is 38%.
There are always those who will support Labour no matter what.
Just like there are those who will support National no matter what.
No objectivity - just wedded to the Party and, in some cases, confuse their own identity with the chosen party.
When this happens, objective and rational thought is not possible and they will clutch at anything to defend their identity (the Party) no matter how ridiculous they sound and appear to everyone else.
They've moved on though, you'll notice that none of them defend the failed Labour policies, most of them never even tried to, they have shifted now to attacking the coalition policies, as all good oppositions should. Pity Labour themselves haven't found their voice yet.
Time has proven that the Labour policies, and fortunately (absurdly) their abject inability to implement most of them just sustained the disfunction, but perversely wasted untold billions of taxpayer $ in trying to doing so.
This monumental Labour mess is going to take a herculean effort to fix up, some of it might not even be fixable in the 3 year term of government. Hopefully the lessons of being duped by Labour and some wins from the coalition, will secure at least a second term for the incumbents.
Good points.
If the NZ public put Labour back in power at the next election then we, as a country, deserve everything we get.
It would be shocking.
Provided the current coalition don’t do anything too nutty in the next couple of years I would think they are virtually guaranteed a second term after what Labour did the previous 6 years.
Labour will be forgiven in time - but I think they will need sit in opposition for at least one more term if not more.
National only won because of the 20 bucks a week and Winston.