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# Labour MP Slams Christchurch’s ‘Austerity’ Budget, Calls for Bigger Rates Increase
- URL: https://goodoil.news/labour-mp-slams-christchurchs-austerity-budget-calls-for-bigger-rates-increase/
- Published: 2020-06-23T02:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-23T01:54:13.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Election 2020, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

Christchurch Central’s Labour MP has accused city leaders of supporting a “1980s-style austerity” budget that will cost thousands of jobs and damage the city for years to come.

**Duncan Webb** blasted Christchurch City Council on Tuesday for proposing to cut its capital programme by $168 million, and increase rates by just 3.5 per cent instead of the 4.65 per cent, proposed before the Covid-19 crisis.

“This city is in a position to borrow money and to spend money in a way that no other organisation at a local level can and that is what we should be doing now, not 1980s-style austerity which will damage families, people and jobs and the city for years to come.”

He said rates increases caused hardship for some, but not all.

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