Thursday, August 18, 2005
I am trying hard to pick my jaw up off the floor. For months Michael Cullen has been telling us that there is no money for tax cuts, and National will have to cut spending on health, education and the like to fund them. Suddenly, Helen Clark blithely announces that Labour will provide tax relief to 60,000 more working families from April next year. The sheer audacity of this takes the breath away!
Ms Clark also says it shows how targeted assistance can put more in the pockets of people than a tax cut does. Well of course it does. You take from a lot of people and you give back to a few. The "lot" who are not targeted don't get any increase, and certainly have no say in how their money is spent.
But the government knows better than you how to spend your money.
Ms Clark also says it shows how targeted assistance can put more in the pockets of people than a tax cut does. Well of course it does. You take from a lot of people and you give back to a few. The "lot" who are not targeted don't get any increase, and certainly have no say in how their money is spent.
But the government knows better than you how to spend your money.
