Nats eye Budget for signs of excessive pre-election spend-up

Nats eye Budget for signs of excessive pre-election spend-up
Pattrick Smellie
The National Party will be watching for evidence that the government is trying to spend its way out of a severe pre-election economic downturn in its Budget announcements this week. “The thing that lurks in the mind is that we are only four months out from the election,” National’s finance spokesman, Paul Goldsmith, told BusinessDesk. “There will be a temptation to spend massively to put off the economic consequences of the lockdown and send the bill to the next Budget.” There were two key questions for the electorate, he said. “Firstl...

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