Get ready for a GST rise

  • liv@lemmy.nz
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    8 months ago

    This is beginning to feel like being driven by a drunk driver. They seem to be really clueless financially.

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      8 months ago

      When they say “good for business” they mean Fulton Hogan and landlords.

      That’s all they know: property and road infrastructure.

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        8 months ago

        This makes them dangerous as economic managers. For example overinvestment in retail residential gives us dangerous rates of foriegn-held private debt, which weakens our economy and drags down our credit rating. There’s a comensurately low level of productive investment.

        Increased income inequality means our economy is more sluggish at recovering from downturns (I’m not sure what alchemy produces that, but it’s a known phenomenon throughout the OECD).

        The fact they’re just randomly fiddling with the tax settings to achieve these tunnel-vision goals around landlords, is scary.

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          They don’t care. They line their own pockets and their cronies’.

          It’s about making the economy better for the clique not for everyone.

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            8 months ago

            Temporarily better. This is the action of a parasite that weakens /kills its host, in terms of actually having a functioning economy.

    • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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      8 months ago

      That’s at least partly because the inner circle are mostly lobbyists turned MPs rather than technocrats turned MPs (the criticism sometimes levied at Labour). Have a look at Nicola Willis’ education and work history - there’s nothing in there that screams Finance Minister.