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Two Invoices, No Cheque: Winston Has the Only Tax Cut Worth Having

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.

,   and  Cam Slater
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Cartoon: Luxon and Hipkins at a PAY HERE counter hold out invoices to a voter with empty pockets, while Winston Peters at the CASH OUT counter holds a business tax cut cheque.

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Cartoon: a giant Winston Peters looms over a TV studio boxing ring holding a bell and a scorecard while tiny Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins square off below.
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Neither Chris Gets to Decide

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.

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Cartoon: Qiulae Wong eagerly dials a phone while Christopher Luxon hides behind a memo reading Ruled Out and peeks sideways at a ringing red phone marked Q.
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Luxon Will Pick Up the Phone

Luxon has ruled out Opportunity, but he never said he wouldn’t take the call. On current polling the overhang strategy is the only way to keep Opportunity out and the coalition in.

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Cartoon: Winston Peters carries Christopher Luxon and David Seymour up a hill toward a sign reading 65, while Nicola Willis follows behind wagging a finger.
Analysis

Winston Brought the Majority

NZ First is up to 12 per cent and 16 seats and that is what puts the coalition on 65. National’s party vote still buys no list MP. Electorate vote National, party vote ACT or NZ First.

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Cartoon: Christopher Luxon and a bald Chris Hipkins tug over a single comb in a parliamentary lobby while David Seymour leans on a pillar, arms folded, smirking.
Analysis

Reality Wants Its Money Back

David Seymour has called the government’s path to surplus “heroic”, four days before National shows its fiscal plan. When the junior partner says that about your books, believe him.

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