Analysis: Finance Minister delivers 'nip and tuck' Budget

Analysis: Finance Minister delivers 'nip and tuck' Budget

Middle income New Zealanders may well be feeling shortchanged as cuts are used to pay for other bills.

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Nicola Willis’s 2025 Budget is not merely austere.It is ideologically blind, historically ignorant, and economically servile. It is the kind of budget a captive colony delivers to its owners — not one a sovereign nation delivers to its people. Where China and Singapore spend to build the future, New Zealand cuts to appease the past.Where others use sovereign money to activate dormant capacity, we pretend we must beg or bleed to get anything done…