by JC on the BFD
“Another example of misleading the public on numbers is the savings you get when removing GST from fruit and vegetables. It will not be $5 a week: more like $1.50 – if you’re lucky. I have not read of one economist who agrees with it. Not to worry: Mike Munro writes that the families who will most appreciate cheaper GST-free food couldn’t care less about what economists think.
“Right there, in his own words, is the nub of Labour’s problem. It’s the government arrogance of ‘we know best’, when the truth is they haven’t got a clue. I must pause, though, to give Grant Robertson a plaudit, because he did understand and gave due warning to his party of the consequences of going down this road. But the Boy from the Hutt wasn’t interested. He was mesmerised by the measly $5 (or infinitesimal $1.50).”
The best way to save on not only GST but supermarket margins is of course grow you own, and swap with others. See the Wally Richards posts. —Eds
They might mislead the Liebour supporters, but true and true Kiwis know that GST is added when the growers sell to the supermarkets and GST is added onto the diesel, Plus Road User Costs, Fuel admission taxes Etc. to transport the goods to the supermarkets. So by the time it gets on the shelves it has already been taxed to death anyway.
Labour are gone for at least a decade
It’s what the sods deserve.