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READER POLL RESULT: Should the Crown pay for an independent policy-costing unit?

Greens, Taxpayers' Union in odd-couple alignment – do NBR ONLINE readers agree? With special feature audio.

Chris Keall
Tue, 02 Feb 2016

The Taxpayers’ Union liked the Greens’ idea for a Treasury unit to independently cost political parties’ policies, with founder David Farrar comparing it to the reality-check role played by the Congressional Budget Office in the US.

NBR ONLINE readers do too. Our Business Pulse poll found

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Chris Keall
Tue, 02 Feb 2016
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