PM says the nation is fragile and its finances are in a mess, which justifies 'tough decisions' to cut the benefits of 'free riders'. Really? The grown-ups of global finance think the exact opposite

Another good write up showing that the Government is misleading the public about the state of public finances and the economy, and also benefit sanctions.

Given the way they stonewall and just repeat their talking points when challenged suggests to me that they’re simply lying about a crisis to justify gutting services for tax cut handouts

  • @master5o1
    1•4 months ago

    It’s electioneering in that it is to create damage control ahead of dropping or delaying any promised reward to those that voted for the income tax cut.

    It can allow them to defer until they claim that NZ is not fragile, which would probably be as a re-election campaign: vote for us because WE fixed a fragile economy, let’s keep the momentum so that we can let people keep more of their hard earned income.