Get ready for a GST rise

  • liv@lemmy.nz
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    4 months ago

    This makes them dangerous as economic managers. For example overinvestment in retail residential gives us dangerous rates of foriegn-held private debt, which weakens our economy and drags down our credit rating. There’s a comensurately low level of productive investment.

    Increased income inequality means our economy is more sluggish at recovering from downturns (I’m not sure what alchemy produces that, but it’s a known phenomenon throughout the OECD).

    The fact they’re just randomly fiddling with the tax settings to achieve these tunnel-vision goals around landlords, is scary.

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      4 months ago

      They don’t care. They line their own pockets and their cronies’.

      It’s about making the economy better for the clique not for everyone.

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        Temporarily better. This is the action of a parasite that weakens /kills its host, in terms of actually having a functioning economy.