‘Everything comes at a cost’: Business leaders on Budget trade-offs

Business leaders say fiscal discipline is a good thing, but it has come at a price. (Image: NZME/Supplied/BusinessDesk)

Fri, 23 May 2025

Nikko Asset Management managing director Stuart Williams says it is good to have fiscal discipline, but he acknowledges there has been a price paid for it in the current Budget.“Everything comes at a cost,” he told BusinessDesk on Thursday, after the Budget was released.“There’ll be people who will be suffering because the Government cannot spend money in other areas, and that’s the very cruel reality of budgeting.”That budget discipline will help deliver a $214 million surplus, according to the OBEGALx...

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