A bland election year budget

A bland election year budget
Grant Robertson briefs media on the budget (Image: BusinessDesk)
Pattrick Smellie
This budget will not win the government the Oct 14 general election.But nor does it contain anything that might cause it to lose.It is a conservative document with very little new thinking, no big-bang ideas, a relatively benign economic outlook.But it doesn’t give opposition parties all that much to bite on, beyond general arm-waving about how much more the government spends these days than it used to. Even there, the attack line is not that strong.If the Treasury’s fiscal and economic forecasts are to be believed, New Zealand dodg...

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