Marsden"Nicola Willis’ big tax-cutting Budget for 2024 due on May 30 is shaping up as the heir to Ruth Richardson’s ‘Mother of all Budgets’ in 1991, which traumatised a generation and cost the National Finance Minister her job two years later.
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The difference is Richardson’s swathes of cuts to the social safety were forged in the midst of a true fiscal and financial crisis for the Government, ..."
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Paying for tax cuts by not funding insulin pumps and glucose monitors for disabled kids
Ministry confirms funding pulled for new insulin pumps & glucose monitors, raising carer fears of 'Dead in Bed syndrome'; Simmonds didn't tell Cabinet of funding halt designed to help pay for tax cuts