Stuff fact-checked Labour’s “Cost of Luxon” line by line. Some numbers hold, rates come in at about half and the document counts every cost while leaving out tax cuts, mortgage savings and FamilyBoost. Chris Hipkins admits it “does not account for changes in income”.
Labour and National on 28 per cent each, a debate of recycled lines and a prime minister who got the minimum wage wrong on live television. Wong says it looks like Labour. Electorate vote National, party vote ACT or NZ First.
I've examined what every major party is proposing to do about unemployment.
Opportunity wants a $30,000 donation cap. Gareth Morgan has given it $2,190,617. Pull the ladder up once you are on the roof.
Hipkins and Luxon tied on 20 per cent, National and Labour on 34 seats each and Opportunity holding the balance. The kingmaker who won the debate had already said dropping her own tax reform was worth considering. Electorate vote National, party vote ACT or NZ First.
Responding to Willis’s warning that there was no such thing as a free lunch, Edmonds, a mother of eight, said she agreed. “There is no free lunch. Lunch always costs… But ultimately, it comes down to the choices you make, and this is taxpayers’ dollars. We have to be responsible around it.”
The Greens say their nearly $6 billion economic plan will create 284,000 jobs over four years. Treasury already forecasts 220,000 of them. Marama Davidson says what’s missing is “the masterplan”.
Labour says Luxon costs you $6302 a year. National says Labour will cost you $2263. Neither of them is cutting your income tax. The only party offering a business tax cut it has costed is NZ First.
National’s fiscal plan offers no income tax cuts until the books are in surplus in 2028/29, only a “pathway to potential tax relief”. Nicola Willis still called National “the party of low tax”.
Winston Peters says Luxon and Hipkins will not decide this election and the media is still running it like first past the post. Two more Chris-on-Chris debates are booked. The kingmaker is the story nobody is billing.
“I’m going to be blunt with you, Chris Hipkins said no,” Nicola Willis said, adding she hoped to work together on a solution in the next term.
The country must come first. Split voting is now non-negotiable. If the other side gets in we are finished, at least in the short to medium term.
On this poll, the centre-right loses. National’s two-ticks-for-National strategy is not working. Strategic voting is going to decide the election.
Just remember it’s her job on the line if you party vote ACT or NZ First – and how is that your problem?
ACT’s James Christmas and Paul Henry have gone after NZ First on abortion and foreign aid with four weeks to run. ACT is down to 9.2 in Curia. The last time ACT attacked Winston, it cost them points.
