Tax cuts or more/better government services

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Broad sweeping tax cuts as National is promising is a tempting bribe, but how far would $14.6b go in improving education, health and other services in NZ. Pharmac could do with a billion or two...

not a bad idea from National as a source of revenue taxing foreign home buyers but I can't help thinking the money would be better spent elsewhere.  if I could get an appointment with my GP earlier than 3 weeks I would save plenty of money not needing to use an after hours service, probably make up for the tax cut.

As it is we will see more cuts to services under National imho...

If spending more money on government services was the answer then why have their been virtually no improvement in government services in the last 6 years?  In fact many of those services have actually gotten worse.

Things like health and welfare are black holes - you could triple the amount of money they each have and their would still be poverty, waiting lists and 2 week waits for a doctors appointment.

Worth remembering that we have been dealing with a pandemic for much of those 6 years which has cost a shit-tonne of money and placed enormous demands on our health sector together with many other social services. We can just be grateful that we weren't under a National government during that time because for one thing there would now be around 50,000 less Kiwis if we had been.