It will be framed as another exercise in There Is No Alternative: "We need this stuff but we're too broke to afford it."
Bullshit. Aotearoa has uncommonly low public debt rates for a developed country. And more importantly, we are a monetary sovereign, unlike EU nations. We could, if our leaders understood it, use that superpower to invest in future-proofing this place and making it somewhere our tamariki and mokopuna want to stay rather than flee.
Phil Stevens /
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2024-10-14 19:01:57
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