I suspect this is going to be a theme for this new govt.
The promised 20 bucks a week is going to be eaten up by all the new fees, charges and levies.
Meet the new tax collectors - the nz police force.
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Labour's Nosey Parker has last year confirmed it was going to be a larger theme under Labour with Auckland's
Regional Fuel Tax impost still in place stealing even more from Auckland purses & wallets ;)
The Pot Hole population & Labour's uncanny ability to ignore them multiplying infinitely
right under their noses would have undoubtedly seen what ? ;)
National's rego ripoff (tm).
Where was the campaign promise to hike feul tax & what does the Act party have to say about that.
So what happened to the tens of billions of dollars raised in debt by Ardern & Hipkins?
Why didn't some of that go into maintenance rather than squandered on 3 Waters, media merger, income insurance, bike bridge to nowhere, school lunches which are not eaten and fed to pigs, consultants etc etc?
Answer - Clueless and Useless Ardern & Hapless Hipkins had zero idea about spending and accountability.
Commentary on School Lunches by Kerre Woodham, who was and still is a supporter of the program :
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/...chool-lunches/
Most important bit :
" ...... the previous government hadn't put school lunches in its long-term budget costings. They've dipped into the Covid-19 emergency money, which was all debt.
The Covid response and recovery fund, that's where the funding came for school lunches. There was no long-term funding applied.
As the excellent Kate McNamara writes, she wrote about it in the Herald some time ago. Grant Robertson was told by Treasury that the more than $527 million in operating funds he planned to charge to the Covid-19 emergency fund for the lunches, didn't really qualify as Covid resurgence costs. Funding through the ordinary budget process would be more suitable.
That advice fell on deaf ears because he knew he couldn't find a place in his budget for it."
https://thumbnailer.digitalnz.org/?r...d%3DIE17195653