Category Archive: Budget 2010

May
22
2010

Labour’s alternative budget

Ok, I haven’t seen an actual alternative budget – but given they are the main opposition I’ll turn what they have said into one, so that I can give them the same airtime as others.  We have already discussed Act, Libertarians, and National – and I aim to get something on the Greens out by …

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May
20
2010

Budget 2010

Apologises for the EPIC delay in doing this.  I wanted to have comments up by 6 (it was not out till nearly 10), but a meeting ran overtime, work servers went down, and my trip home from work on this was slower than expected. [ed. And the site went down ...] First here are links …

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May
20
2010

You have thoughts on the Budget?

I have seen Bernard Hickey discuss the Budget.  I am sure more will come. I will write tonight, and other authors will pop things up today – I can’t do any sooner as I am out of the office. It looks like it was a substantial change to tax rates – most of which were …

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May
20
2010

NZ Libertarian party alternate budget

The Libertarian party is the next group to release an alternate budget for Budget 2010 with further discussion here. I am glad to see more people doing alternative budgets, but as always I have some concerns: It is subject to the same criticisms as Sir Roger’s budget – namely the trade-off between equity and efficiency …

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May
20
2010

GST rise “helping the poor”

Hone said that the increase in GST will hurt the poor.  His justification is: GST hits poor people the hardest because nearly all of their money is spent on things that you pay GST on – food, petrol, electricity – so any increase is going to really hurt them Interesting.  I was under the impression …

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May
19
2010

Sir Roger’s alternative budget

Notice that I just stole the title from Kiwiblog – as it was really the best title in my opinion This is the first set of policies for the Budget, so it is the first post for our “Budget 2010” series. Kiwiblog has a great rundown, I’ve only got a few points to add: Yes …

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