Budget 2016: Median earners forgotten in scramble for bigger government
OPINION: No matter how much money the government spends, there will be scores of politicians and lobby groups demanding even more.
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The one thing we knew wouldn’t be in the budget this week was tax cuts. The government has said not today, probably not next year but maybe at some stage before 2020.
While National has done a good job at getting the government’s books into surplus, it has done so on the back of an increasing tax
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Budget 2016: Median earners forgotten in scramble for bigger government
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