This is the worst thing they could do to attempt to fix the horrible housing market. Of course, I suspect that is exactly the point.
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As they say, ya can't stop progress! /s
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.
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.
True. I was sort of meaning more, what they are doing to the books in order to afford their one weird policy.