Originally Posted by
Logen Ninefingers
I personally don’t think tax cuts are a great idea when we’ve got a revenue problem, whether it be tax cuts to GST on fruit and vegetables or whatever. We get these parties claiming they need to help people enduring a ‘cost of living crisis’, yet giving people more incentive and ability to spend only exacerbates inflation. Presumably *Labour* announce these kinds of tax cuts close to an election to get people to vote for them. The main reason we need more revenue at present is because of the huge reckless spending Robertson has presided over.
Interesting to see you banging on about the health system when the past 6 years have proven that the problem isn’t the vast amounts of money being thrown at it, it’s where the money is going that is the issue. Labour have squandered billions on mergers, extra bureaucrats, a new separatist ‘Maori Health Authority’….none of it has improved outcomes for New Zealanders. Likewise we’ve seen vast waste with the polytech mega-merger, the tv / radio merger that never went ahead, the Auckland cycle bridge that was never built, Auckland light rail that never proceeded and countless other bureaucratic boondoggles. Plus $500 million of expired RAT tests that now must be chucked away. All of this money would have paid for quite a few potholes to be fixed, I am sure. The Left see this vast waste and their response is “and now we must have a wealth tax”. Quite extraordinary really, they never hold Labour to account, just continue with the myopia they are known for.