The whole campaign was based on an untruth; Labour had no intention of axeing any tax. on Breakfast the very week of the bus trip The first admission came from Jacinda Ardern when she blurted out to Paul Henry:
It probably should be "Axe the Tax Rise", but that doesn't look snappy on a billboard.
It wasn't long before Phil Goff was forced to make a big admission; Labour would not be reversing the proposed rise in GST. By the end of April, Goff had made that admission on TV3's The Nation programme, and it was confirmed in September 2010 during the Mana by-election campaign, as reported by the Dom-Post:
A Labour-led government will not reverse the GST rise if elected next year, leader Phil Goff has admitted.
Phil Goff has called John Key a liar over National's GST increase which he claims that Key ruled out during the 2008 election campaign. We reckon that Goff has picked the wrong front on which to attack Key's credibility, when his own record on GST isn't that flash. Remember that Goff was a member of the Labour Cabinet which introduced GST in the first place, and which increased it from 10% to 12.5% in July 1989, WITHOUT any compensatory reduction in PAYE.
Once again, Phil Goff seems to have missed the bus!
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Calling for the government to ax the tax is the polar opposite of promising to ax the tax. i.e apples and oranges.
Just like Saying you'd not raise gst is the opposite of raising gst. i.e a big fat lie.
Your logic/argument/debating skills have slipped markedly since you went troppo INV2!!!
From NZ herald: 'Key, a former currency trader, was very cocky. He bragged about how good he was with money.. '
Well he's f***cked the country for a guy so good with money hasn't he!
Commentator Alex Tarrant from interest.co.nz told TVNZ's Business programme this morning that National is still counting on the revenue stream from dividends the power companies pay the Government each year.
"Technically in the accounts it doesn't have it as asset sales, they just have it as $5-7 billion from somewhere in the Government's capital base," he said.
Yes Steve, plus there's this:
"Over the next three years the Government has projected it will be borrowing about 13 billion. Under our projections we'd probably be borrowing about $15.6 billion. But we'd keep our assets," Mr Goff said.
"We'll be showing New Zealand the money tomorrow. John Key needs to show New Zealand the jobs at the same time."
Hey Steve O maybe you could try reading a some words from the wise (..and sadly departed) one...
http://rogerkerr.wordpress.com/category/series-the-truth-about-privatisation/
and instead of trotting out the the 'family silver' nonsense give some objective consideration to not spending spending my mokopuna's inheritance.
..and what a loss for the public discourse on economic matters when the best we can put up now are numpteys like Hickey, the goose with the unspellable name from BERL or self serving muppets like Gayner and Morgan (just check out how well his kiwisaver products have been faring...and ask yourself is this guy best placed to tell the rest of the country how to manage their money??)
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