KiwiSaver needs to change

KiwiSaver needs to change
Being your best self in retirement requires income. (Image: Getty)
Warren Couillault
Try as I might not to add my two cents' worth to the deluge of commentary on this week’s budget, there are one or two things I do need to get off my chest.Please stand back and look at what’s happening here: quite succinctly summarised as tax, borrow and transfer. That’s all we’ve seen for the past six years, and I wouldn’t expect anything different should this lot be returned to government later this year. The government is spending nearly $60 billion a year more – over $1b more each week – th...

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