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Chloe Swarbrick is more likely to be Finance Minister than Nicola Willis under either a Left or Right Govt
Have you seen Labour’s manifesto?
It confirms Chris Hipkins will tax New Zealanders more to pay for his reckless spending.
There is only one thing Kiwis can be certain Chris Hipkins will deliver following the release of his manifesto – higher taxes to fund higher spending.
After Labour previously backed away from its commitment to lift government spending to 33 per cent of GDP, it has now quietly slipped this multi-billion-dollar promise back into its agenda, hoping nobody will notice.
Despite this amounting to thousands of dollars in additional spending per household, Labour’s fiscal plan fails to explain where all the additional revenue needed to fund it will come from.
The inconsistencies don’t stop there. Labour also appears to have watered down its debt target in today’s manifesto.
In its fiscal plan, Labour committed to reducing net debt ‘below 20 per cent of GDP over time’. Its manifesto now says only that it will reduce net debt ‘towards 20 per cent of GDP’. Which is it?
This isn’t Monopoly money. Every extra dollar Labour promises to spend has to come from somewhere, and New Zealanders deserve to know how much more Chris Hipkins plans to take from them to pay for it.
Labour alone means billion in additional taxes on Kiwis. A Labour coalition with Chloe Swarbrick as Finance Minister mean economy-crashing levels of taxation and spending.
The choice couldn’t be clearer. Stick with National’s plan for a more secure future, or risk it all on a Labour-led four-party coalition with Chloe Swarbrick as Finance Minister.
The cuts should start with the PSC staff spending their time inventing false reasons to withhold information from the media
Friendly reminder of the stakes thepost.co.nz/politics/36110…
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Tom Skerritt
Ian Holm
Yaphet Kotto
Veronica Cartwright
Sigourney Weaver
Yaphet Kotto died in March
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Veronica Cartwright
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The streak of actors from Alien dying in the order they did in the the 'Director's Cut' has been broken
Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” has died of natural causes at 93.
variety.com/2026/film/news/t…
The campaign chair out here tweeting for <60 likes
Chris Hipkins claims there is a hiring freeze in our hospitals.
Fact check: false.
There are more than 2,100 additional nurses employed at our hospitals since 2023, and more than 900 additional doctors.
We are currently hiring thousands more frontline staff in our hospitals.
#LeadersDebate
Exciting to have an immigration debate in the media between 'no migrants' and 'yes migrants, but only those from europe'
Column from me in response to Eric Crampton’s piece proposing bringing in 2.5m more young Europeans over the next 20 yrs.
Even if it were to be politically sustainable it would prob worsen econ performance; fiscal pressures shld be dealt with directly
thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361097…
If it was weaker than expected, then, by definition, that could not be 'unsurprisingly'
Two great movies out of four would be the best year ever for movies based on video games
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