What mess? Do you just dream up these statements? Luxon left before the covid pandemic and Foran started pretty much around the that time.
You really don't have much to offer.
The one where he increased debt levels to the max before the pandemic hit.
Borrowing money at 5%+, to pay a dividend.
Nonetheless National will get in despite what happens from here.
The 20 bucks stapled to the pledge card was a masterstroke.
I'm using the National party tax calculator for my figures (unless they got their modelling wrong there too)
Median earner gets $25 /week based on a $66k salary.
https://www.nationaltaxcalculator.co...xoClW0QAvD_BwE
Superannuitants only get 7 bucks a week.
Well I worked on out on a family with 2 earners on average incomes, with 2 kids, and got ‘Total fortnightly saving under National: $212.27’
It’s not really aimed at you or millionaire superannuitants who get ‘winter energy payments’, it’s aimed at battling working families in the so-called ‘stretched middle’. You know, people getting hammered by rising mortgage interest rates, rising food prices, rising petrol prices, rising council rates, rising insurance bills, rising childcare costs, rising power prices.
Yes I concede that you have to pop out a few kids to get anything worthwhile.