Not PC

"T here are ... unwise government interventions that I would wish to eliminate, but that I would also not willingly push a button to el...

Imperator Fish has a fair point about Billy Bob’s complacency about Australia’s just-announced tax cuts:     “Bill English told Radio NZ ...

18 Days before the election, in 2008 : “National’s not going to be raising GST.” Yesterday, 2:20pm : “The Government is … carefully consi...

BILL ENGLISH HAS BEGUN his working year by talking up his plans for something he calls "a fairer tax system.”  If that bromide is to me...

John Key rules out a Capital Gains Tax . Yesterday, Bill English ruled it in.  Key said back in September that Capital Gains Taxes were “in...

Everyone’s got a favourite tax they want to slap on someone to stop the exchange rate exploding and the housing bubble happening again. B...

Never ones to miss an opportunity, when the Fieldays gods chose to place our stand directly opposite National’s – causing John Key to scuttl...

Having learned where the Fieldays gods chose to place our stand, we quickly produced two handouts to go with our site’s sign.  The second on...

Responsible adults know that you don’t promise what you can’t deliver, and you don’t spend what you haven't got. This is not a governm...

Bill English’s first Budget wasn’t just a cynically delivered broken promise on tax cuts, a broken promise erroneously sold as “unavoidable”...

Disgraceful. David Farrar calls it a "budget that almost writes itself." That's almost true once you factor in broken prom...

Unlike the National/Act Government, who are about to expensively break their election promises on tax cuts this afternoon, Libertarianz lum...

In what has already been dubbed by commentators “the most important Budget of our generation,” Bill English and John Key have already signal...

He rather lets the Nats off the hook at the end, but Brian Rudman’s piece in today’s Herald is worth reading just to be reminded what a cyn...

The National Party spent all last election swallowing dead rats, to the loud applause of its staunchly Labour-Lite supporters who thought th...

The Key Government has continued to signal that they are going to backtrack on the tax cuts that were at the centre of their platform in the...

Bill English is now all but conceding that National’s tax cuts, promised at the election only five months ago, will not be going ahead.  Let...

Bernard Hickey reports that Bill English wants bureaucrats to accept a pay freeze during a time of recession, saying that with debt already...

Significant tax cuts were a key election-winning promise for National, remember? And now they want to recant on that promise, just as I told...