For the extent of the things cut and the broken promises of funding for select treatments that they campaigned on. The sorts of things you were critical of the last government about. Fascinating that national have now run 4 seperate elections on tax cuts and won 3 of them and are delivering them when the country can least afford itWhy?
Taken from govt savings
Inflation neutral
Still $3.5b in new spending in priority areas
Big new spending on health, education, law and order and infrastructure
Why should noncore govt spending be untouchable at the expense of workers in a cost of living crisis? Doesn’t everyone need to chip in?
I think it’s great minimum wage people aren’t now paying high level tax. Not inflation adjusting tax rates has been a govt wrought targeting the poor.
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And look at what they've cut causing misery and desperation amongst thousands. Cutting funding left right and centre to those that need it most.
That's not savings. That's deliberate economic vandalism in a country that can't afford it.
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You must have hated the petrol tax drop under Labour…
So you support minimum wage people paying 33% tax? You are for trapping ever increasing numbers of working people in poverty and increasing the wealth divide?
The country has and can afford tax cuts aimed at lower/ middle NZ more than we just can’t afford a bloated government. That’s been the choice and I agree with putting the struggling taxpayer first.
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It’s a white govt with a white budget according to them… while the actual govt has more Maori MP’s in it than the Maori party does!
Just radical separatists pushing racial division. Those sort of messages will result in hate, disharmony and bitterness from their followers and foster a culture of victimhood and entitlement.
The budget offers tax cuts, extra health, education funding, etc for Maori. What more do they want?
Borrowing money to provide a tax cut isn’t being able to afford them. It’s financial mismanagement
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They are not borrowing any more. They have found savings from govt departments to cover it. Their budgets prior to the election had National repaying the debt faster than Labour WITH the tax cuts.
When Labour borrowed more to pay for the petrol discounts what was your thoughts on that?
Petrol is a necessity and controlled by worldwide factors, but there will be people getting relief from these cuts who don’t need them so it’s a ridiculous equivalence. Just because borrowing is necessary in other areas doesn’t mean they aren’t going towards the cuts. If the cuts weren’t happening then that money borrowed could have gone to that area
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No need mate. Concentrate on fixing yourselfFixed it for you
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Glad we can agree that fossil fuels are necessary for a while yet. Pity the last lot didn't think so.
And yes the base price of imported fuel is controlled by worldwide factors, the excise tax isn't.
Controlled by domestic though in terms of maintaining the roads the excise taxes were. The same sort that will be covered by future petrol taxes already to go up in the future and staggered registration prices over consecutive years. I think common sense says dirty fuels are required unfortunately until a breakthrough is established as an alternative and electric vehicles aren’t feasible with the amount of power required to power a whole country’s fleet
Politicians aren’t smart enough for self diversified portfolios.
You know the biggest predictor for success is not your parents wealth, but your IQ right?
What I find odd is that they say there isn't the oncologists and cancer care nurses to administer the drugs.... but it's the oncologists who would diagnosis the cancer and recommend which drugs to use. Also, a number of them seem as if they are in pill form so wouldn't need cancer care nurses to administer them like they do with IV chemo. I also don't buy into the fact that the previous government hadn't fully funded future Pharmac needs as the Nats would have known that from last year's budget and shouldn't have made the promise in the campaign if they knew the funding wasn't there.
When my wife was diagnosed, the chemo treatment she was put on wasn't recognised at that stage as a way to attack the cancer by the NZ MOH. Previously, they would have used a cocktail of three drugs to treat her form and grade of cancer but there had been a trial in Boston using just one, less invasive, chemo drug and it had much better survival rates than what was still being used in NZ in the public system. Fortunately, through her work, she had medical insurance and they wanted to use the single drug treatment as it was cheaper than the cocktail.
Her oncologist worked both in the public system and privately at Canopy Cancer Care and he wished he could have made the single drug treatment available to the public patients like he could the private ones. The drug was funded and available in publicly in NZ.... it just hadn't been approved as a treatment for her form of cancer.
The single drug approach was far easier for the patients than the one used here. A few years after she completed her chemo, the Ministry of Health approved the single drug for use in the public system for her type of cancer.... partly based on the results of her and others who had used the drug privately through health insurance funding.
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Yup. If only all the excise and licensing taxes went into roading/transport initiatives we would all be better off. The general fund has a lot to answer for, whoever is in power.
So, Meridian (along with Mercury and Contact) have entered into a 20 year deal to provide power to the Tiwai Point aluminum smelter. On the radio, people are already claiming this as a victory for the Nats and that Labour couldn’t have gotten this through…. what a load of rubbish!!! It’s an agreement between NZAS and the power suppliers. It would have happened no matter whichever party was in power.
