Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: budget surplus

  • There is no surplus

    Radio NZ reports: Tax cuts could soon be on the way with the Government opening up its books today revealing Crown accounts are tracking along nicely. “We’ve always said, if…

  • Escaping the beartrap: good policy costs money

    I wrote a while back about Metiria Turei’s 2016 state of the nation address, and my reservations about the idea of an “independent” policy costings unit. I said: I want…

  • The surplus lie

    Andrew Little delivered his pre-Budget speech in Wellington yesterday, and the pullquote everyone’s talking about was some seriously no-nonsense stuff: …[National’s] promise was clear. Their good economic stewardship would see us in…

  • John Key’s weird “gotcha” moment on ACC

    Andrew Little was pushing the Prime Minister today on the fact that he’s ripping off workers and businesses to the tune of $350 million in ACC levies in order to…

  • Little: ACC levies need to come down

    Most of the attention on today’s episode of Q&A focused on the two biggest issues in NZ politics at the moment – the Northland by-election and Nicky Hager’s most recent GCSB…