Quake law shakedown exposes dopey rules
Only the government could expend $10 billion to return a paltry $100 million.
Rodney Hide discusses his latest column on NBR Radio and on demand on MyNBR Radio.
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Only the government could expend $10 billion to return a paltry $100 million. No other organisation has that power or stupidity.
The scale of the loss is detailed in a 100-page report, Error Prone Bureaucracy, by former Reserve Bank analyst Ian Harrison. It’s a considered and intelligent study of
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Quake law shakedown exposes dopey rules
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