So if NZ wasn’t a tax haven, why have the Trusts fled?
…it turns out the only thing John Key could build was tax havens.
…it turns out the only thing John Key could build was tax havens.
By trying to be respectable to the property owning electorate, Labour and the Greens have lost any credibility with those neoliberalism is failing which leaves the Greens and Labour with no other option than to allow Winston to dominate.
It is hard not to be angry. No needy child gets any benefit out of National’s grand plan until April next year. Always jam tomorrow never jam today. Budgets should be about changes for the current year-not the year after. Shame on them.
Responding to the news that Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty International Turkey, was detained on Wednesday along with seven other…
National’s failure to fix the housing shortage has been starkly illustrated by new statistics, says Labour Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford….
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TWO BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY. The first came from the New Zealand Initiative and purported to be about improving our education system. The second came from the Supreme Court of New Zealand and had the effect of stopping the Ruataniwha Dam in its tracks. On the face of it these two announcements have nothing whatsoever in common. What links them, however, is the way in which both demonstrate how dramatically Kiwi neoliberalism’s room for manoeuvre has shrunk.
This ‘budget surplus’ is a sick illusion built upon underfunding the needs of the vulnerable and the poor who don’t vote.