The case for a pre-Christmas mini-budget

The case for a pre-Christmas mini-budget
One-track question lines on fiscal policy hide deeper issues. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Pattrick Smellie
Who is the more ridiculous?Is it Christopher Luxon for his dogged refusal, day after day, to show the workings for the National party’s $740 million estimate of tax to be paid from a levy on foreign buyers of swanky homes?Or is it the media continually asking the same question, day after day, creating the preconditions for theatrical petulance at being perpetually stonewalled?Given that National’s momentum in the polls appears to be cementing, it is almost becoming fair to conclude that – shock, horror – voters don&rsquo...

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