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Tax cuts paid for by up to 13k more kids in poverty (thekaka.substack.com)
submitted 9 months ago by BalpeenHammer to c/politics
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[–] liv 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good grief the books are sounding worse than I thought. Bernard Hickey's a fairly reliable commentator.

Social Development Minister Louise Upston argued the shift would encourage people off the benefit.

How does greater poverty encourage those on SLP due to incurable diseases? The only thing I can imagine it encouraging is more suicide.

[–] Xcf456 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The books aren't anywhere near as bad as they're making out, it's just they can't afford their tax cuts without gutting public services.

[–] liv 2 points 9 months ago

True. I was sort of meaning more, what they are doing to the books in order to afford their one weird policy.