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		<title>Tax Cuts Galore! Money Scramble!</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/must-read-sunday-tax-cuts-galore-money-scramble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2016 18:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Setting the Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 tax cut]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dear Leader lies through his teeth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NZ Superannuation Fund]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since National has not thought twice at under-funding the Health Budget, it certainly does not seem troubled at using tax-cuts as an election bribe, and undermining this country's future superannuation savings-fund for selfish political gain.
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		<title>National&#8217;s Wellington Mayoral candidate, Jo Coughlan &#8211; four lanes to nowhere</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/nationals-wellington-mayoral-candidate-jo-coughlan-four-lanes-to-nowhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2016 local body elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister Bill English]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[green wash]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Right-wing mayoral candidate, and current Wellington City Councillor, Jo Coughlan, has ducked answering questions relating to her campaign policy advocating for a four-lane motorway from Transmission Gully to Wellington airport.
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		<title>The Mendacities of Mr English &#8211; Fibbing from Finance Minister confirmed</title>
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					<comments>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-mendacities-of-mr-english-fibbing-from-finance-minister-confirmed/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 01:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Frank Macskasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting the Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister Bill English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[English's own words reveal that he wilfully misled Lisa Owen on 28 May, on  'The Nation'. Unfortunately, fact-checking politicians who spin untruths is not easy, and requires quick-thinking and an encyclopedic memory.
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		<title>Budget 2016 &#8211; Who wins; who loses; who pays?</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/budget-2016-who-wins-who-loses-who-pays/</link>
					<comments>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/budget-2016-who-wins-who-loses-who-pays/#comments</comments>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 23:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Frank Macskasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting the Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister Bill English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is absolutely zero doubt in my mind that the 2016 Budget is geared 100% toward building up a surplus for tax cuts to be announced next year. Just in time for the 2017 Election. John Key and Bill English have strongly indicated as much with their "kite-flying" with hints of cuts-to-come.
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		<title>Budget 2016: Did Bill English try to pull a swiftie on &#8216;The Nation&#8217;?</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/budget-2016-did-bill-english-try-to-pull-a-swiftie-on-the-nation/</link>
					<comments>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/budget-2016-did-bill-english-try-to-pull-a-swiftie-on-the-nation/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2016 04:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Frank Macskasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister Bill English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health budget]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On TV3's "The Nation", Lisa Owen asked Finance Minister Bill English if funding for health and education had been cut on a per-capita basis. The response from  English was jaw-dropping;
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		<title>EXCLUSIVE: State house sell-off in Tauranga unravelling?</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/exclusive-state-house-sell-off-in-tauranga-unravelling/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Frank Macskasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting the Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister Bill English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing NZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paula Bennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state housing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In none of the Minister's correspondence was he able to provide specifics as to where State houses were in the "wrong place". The 'best' he could do was list five regions; Auckland East & South; Auckland North West & Central; South Island, Central North Island, and Lower North Island.
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		<title>When National is under attack &#8211; Deflect, deflect, deflect!</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/when-national-is-under-attack-deflect-deflect-deflect/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Frank Macskasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting the Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister Bill English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National's default position]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neo-liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I have pointed out in previous blogposts, when threatened with bad headlines or a scandal of some description, National’s automatic defense is  generally to default to one of three* deflections;

Blame previous the Labour government
Release story on ‘welfare abuse’
Blame Global Financial Crisis or similar overseas event

There are plenty of past instances of this kind of strategy.]]></description>
		
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