No Right Turn

How bad are things under the Luxon regime? We already knew that we had the worst wage growth in the world , with wages 6.4% below 2021 leve...

Aotearoa has a problem: the rich don't pay their fair share . They benefit from our society: the state protects their wealth and provide...

Since time immemorial - or at least the 1990's - the National party's Big Economic Idea was cuts. Slash the state! Sack people! Give...

What is the purpose of the state? What is our government for ? If you ask the average New Zealander, you'll likely get some variation o...

RNZ has polling today on taxing billionaires , and its not good for the plutocrats: The second poll commissioned in February 2026 revealed...

National's core promise as a government is to be "better economic managers" (meaning: bald men in blue suits). And they made s...

Remember when Luxon promised a "laser focus on the cost of living"? Mince - the most basic meat you can get - has now become unaff...

So, Labour has finally, shambolically, released its capital gains tax policy , and as signalled it is a weak extension of the bright-line te...

When running for election in 2023, National's key promise was simple: "we will lower the cost of living". They've repeated...

On Saturday, the Herald 's Thomas Coughlan reported that Labour was inching its way to a capital gains tax. But in typical Labour fashio...

In 2016, the then-National government signed the Paris Agreement , committing Aotearoa to a 30 (later 50) percent reduction in emissions by ...

I've been thinking a bit about National's "investment boost", the centrepiece of its dogshit budget. Its pitched by the go...

That's how much Nicola Willis thinks she stole from New Zealand women by repealing pay equity : A tax incentive for businesses, boosts ...

Its budget day, and the government has been whining about how it has no money and so can't afford anything. Meanwhile, they've just ...

Its the budget next week, where National will inflict another round of cuts on kiwis in order to keep funding handouts to landlords and rich...

One of the eternal truths about Aotearoa's economy is that we are "capital poor": there's not enough money sloshing around...

The government published its first Biennial Transparency Report under the Paris Agreement yesterday, and the media has correctly noted that...

At the 2023 election, National basically ran on a platform of being better economic managers. So how'd that turn out for us? In just on...

So, Nicola Willis has presented her nano-budget, which wasn't really a budget after all, just a list of money she is planning to reprior...

Back in 2020, IRD began a hugely controversial (among rich people) study of how much tax the rich are actually paying. earlier this year, it...