Flatten the curve, not the economy, says Bridges

Flatten the curve, not the economy, says Bridges
Pattrick Smellie
New Zealand has done a great job "flattening the curve" of the coronavirus outbreak, but now it must stop that response from "flattening the economy," National Party leader Simon Bridges said today in a crucial pre-Budget speech.Reeling from a leaked UMR poll last week that showed his party slumping to 29 percent support, Bridges came armed with two key new pieces of policy: a scheme to pay up to $100,000 of GST back to businesses that suffer more than a 50 percent collapse in revenue because of covid-19 and a far...

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