Budget 2021 Winners and Losers: Exorcising the Ghost of National's Mother of all Budgets to reanimate the corpse of Muldoon's Think Big
The 'If-Ruth-Richardson's-Mother-of-All-budgets-had-a-30-year-old-brought-up-in-poverty-and-couldn't-buy-a-house' Budget - Winners and Losers For a 2021 Budget, this was all about desperately attempting to repair the 30 year damage of Ruth Richardson’s Mother of All Budgets while waking up the slumbering corpse of Muldoon’s Think Big economic nationalism. There is a miserly upgrade of welfare. Māori Caucus Forced over $973m in extra funding. Climate change gets sweet fuck all. Infrastructure wins huge. You would look at this budget and say, ‘great first steps’, sadly however...
Source: thedailyblog.co.nz