Plenty there for Act to privatise first though (power companies, NZ post, kiwibank).
To be bought up by american banks and chinese state companies.
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Labour lies a lot, and so do you. A paranoid Lefty freaked out that other parties might have the kind of hidden agendas that Labour do. But while ACT would be in no position to enact a secret programme of asset sales, devious Labour pushed ahead with He Puapua, 'co-governance', and 3 Waters but neglected to tell the public before any election. There is a backlash coming, believe me. All your howling about 'tax cuts' is not going to save the jobs of your red mates.
Income tax which is sourced by the gains from overseas investments, bringing new money into the economy.
Plenty of benefits from even using debt to fund NZ super contributions.
NZ benefits from google and microsoft's AI advances, rather than being left out in the cold... how good is that.
When the Left offer untold freebies and bribes - which are actually not 'free' at all - then they hope to box the Right into a corner by leaving them nothing to offer the electorate. The Right then have no option but to offer tax cuts. And pretty modest ones at that. You are a deeply cynical person because you know exactly how the Left plays the game, and you delight in it, but voters see very easily what is going on.
'Printing money' is not an answer and never will be.
But all that money forcibly taken from citizens in the way of tax could have instead been used for saving for their retirement.
Or:
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."--Winston S. Churchill