Not surprising this sort of statement comes from a boomer. I think it is well known that the generation before the boomers paid high taxes and invested in the nation. State housing, tertiary education, roads etc etc. they actually went through hard times and came back from a war wanting to invest in the future of the country, made sacrifices for the benefit of future generations.
Once the boomers had their houses I have not got the figures but I imagine that is about the time govt investment in state houses slowed down, drop taxes and investment in infrastructure, user pays. Tertiary education became unaffordable after the last boomer graduated. The only govt. largesse we now see is 51% of the welfare spend on national superannuation with no asset or means testing for this, but the following generations are saving for their retirement through kiwisaver
and they are paying for the boomer retirement through their taxes. There is talk of raising the retirement age sometime after the last boomer retires.
Fran with that statement just might be the perfect example of why NZ sucks and young people are leaving to go to Aussie in droves where they have better opportunities and better govt policy. Bernard Hickey gets it, Fran like many of her generation is just a selfish self-centred piece of s*it based on that statement and her age.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/10/2...usinesses-cry/
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13...the-story-ends
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24...-to-a-land-tax