Simple truths for politicians
Economic freedom leads to increasing prosperity while government interventions have the opposite effect.
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Budget 25
In 1958, the year of the Black Budget, New Zealanders’ economic freedom, already severely curtailed, was further restricted by massive tax increases.
The first National government (1949-57) had continued the interventions of its predecessor. Crucially, it maintained Labour’s Economic
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