National’s Housing Tax Collapsing Fast – Labour
Misleading assumptions undermine the plans credibility International treaties likely make plan impossible Results in tiny pool of potential overseas buyers…
Labour
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (whitu)
The final day of campaign is upon us. Tomorrow is the “official” Election Day and nine years of National government is about to either end – or win a rare fourth term.
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (wha)
The 2017 Pre-Election Fiscal Update (PREFU) revealed that the Nats had achieved a respectable $3.7 billion surplus – contrasting sharply with the $1.6 billion forecasted surplus in the May 2017 Budget. How did National achieve such a remarkable feat, despite reduced revenue from tax cuts in 2009 and 2010 and the re-build after the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquakes?. One doesn’t have to search far to find one possible answer where cuts were made to achieve their much-vaunted surplus;
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The Labour interns – ACT exposes hypocrisy!
A few days ago, headlines appeared supposedly “exposing a rort” by the NZ Labour Party to exploit American interns for electoral campaigning purposes;
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Nats’ Budget locks in housing crisis – Andrew Little
National’s ninth Budget forecasts house prices will rise at three times the rate of wages, locking in the housing crisis…
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MUST READ: Why is Labour walking into a trap?
In New Zealand, however, we are taxed to death and then when we need help we get denied our entitlements by a brutal system that seems dedicated to stopping people gaining access to help when they or other members in their family have an accident or are unemployed, sick, or are born or become disabled.
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Red Shift: Labour Reorients Itself Toward Small Business
The key question of Robertson’s FoW inquiry has been: What must Labour do to guarantee employers a steady supply of productive workers as New Zealand and the rest of the world enters the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution”?
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The sad political career of Trevor Mallard
As a senior Labour MP Mallard must shoulder a lot of the blame for the 175,000 children Labour left living in Poverty in 2008 despite three successive terms of a Labour government in times of marvellous economic conditions.
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Rebuilding the Country we grew up in – Little’s Big Task ahead
On 20 August 2007, National’s new leader, John Key, made a stirring speech to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Contractors Federation. In it, he lambasted the then-Clark-led Labour government;
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Setting it straight on user-pays in tertiary education – one letter at a time
Labour’s promise of a return to (limited) free tertiary education appears to be unsettling some, for whom the last thirty years has been dominated by the implementation and bedding-in of user-pays (often gradually, so as not to spook the punters) ; reduced-tax; and minimalist-government ideology;