The Puritan Budget: Budget 2026 Punishes the Poor
State tenants pay more. Students lose Fees Free. Beneficiaries are squeezed. The rich remain protected. This is not a recovery Budget, it is punishment with a sermon attached.

State tenants pay more. Students lose Fees Free. Beneficiaries are squeezed. The rich remain protected. This is not a recovery Budget, it is punishment with a sermon attached.

State tenants pay more. Students lose Fees Free. Beneficiaries are squeezed. Banks get a token levy. Budget 2026 is not recovery, it is abandonment.

Katikati patients could lose local hours, weekend clinics and urgent care if a blunt funding model decides their rural community is suddenly urban.

Dialysis rationing is not bad luck. It is the brutal bill for a health system that ignored prevention, ignored clinicians, and called chaos reform.

When nurses speak up about safety — should they be threatened for it?
They were warned. They cut anyway. Now the system is breaking.