Budget 2021: Spend or Save? Finance Minister s dilemma
14 May, 2021 05:00 PM
9 minutes to read
Grant Robertson s Budget balancing act. Cartoon / Rod Emmerson Our expectations are low. And they ll be met, says Alan McDonald, head of advocacy and strategy at the Employers and Manufacturers Association. Grant [Robertson] seems to be signalling an austerity type Budget and where he is talking about spending money – which is education, health and beneficiaries – that s their core stuff, not ours.
It s a blunt but succinct preview of the 2021 Budget from a business leader under no pressure to be politically diplomatic.
Robertson, to be fair, completely rejects suggestions that this will be an austerity Budget.