Set the table for bread and butter - or in this case, fruit and veg: Labour fired its opening election campaign salvo on Sunday with a starkly populist pitch for tax-free produce. The party is pushing ahead with the pre-announced policy despite hiccups in the reveal and near-universal opposition from experts - including in its own ranks: a clear sign the party is putting polling ahead of principle.  In this week's Focus on Politics, Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch assesses the political calculus behind Labour's vote-grabbing GST policy.

Even Labour’s own ministers have spoken out against this policy, it genuinely baffles me why they decided to go ahead with this.

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A receding tide lowers all boats?

      I don’t really know where I’m going with this, I just thought it was funny

      • BalpeenHammer
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        1 year ago

        The rising tide is the dumbest thing economists ever thought of. It actually typifies the short sighted scientifically illiterate nature of economics thought.

        I guess they never realised there was a finite amount of water in the world and rising tides in one place meant ebbing tides in another.