We’ve posted Roger Child’s praise for it, so to provide balance (something the Mainstream Media rarely does these days), here is another take. From your editors’ viewpoint, the notion that all manner of problems can be solved simply by the government throwing money at them needs to be analysed carefully. Like the glaring local example of the KCDC, how much simply goes into the pockets of backroom bureaucrats on big salaries and professional consultants, and how much to things that will actually achieve what is desired? Infrastructure projects like the boost to the railways network can be fully supported, other things not so much.
The high-spending budget has attracted attention across the globe — and has been savaged by critics amid fears it will lead to national debt and tax increases.
Radio host Steve Price discussed the budget with conservative commentator Rita Panahi on his 2GB show on Tuesday night.
‘Ms Ardern said it’s about embedding kindness and empathy, legislating those things,’ Price said.
Panahi replied: ‘This sort of silliness impresses some of the people sometimes for a little period but you eventually get found out and I think she’s going to get found out.’
‘It’s just going to be very ugly at the next election.’