• The stark reality on Government finances: The NZTU nails it

    From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.general on Sun Apr 12 15:06:33 2026
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    https://issuu.com/taxpayersunion/docs/fiscal_reality_check

    Note that I found this easiest to read in full-screen mode.

    This is where we are at. National is as feeble as Labour in
    recognising and tackling all of this.
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    Crash McBash
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  • From Gordon@Gordon@leaf.net.nz to nz.general on Mon Apr 13 04:45:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    On 2026-04-12, Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:
    https://issuu.com/taxpayersunion/docs/fiscal_reality_check

    Note that I found this easiest to read in full-screen mode.


    You can down load the report to a PDF which does help the elderly eye sight
    and the faint print.

    This is where we are at. National is as feeble as Labour in
    recognising and tackling all of this.

    The Number of Public Servants graph is the mind boggling one. Not in that Labour raised the nimbers but that the present government has done very
    little to get things back to "normal".
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