Tax and Spend

A new blog on the block is No Free Lunch. It is a joint effort with articles from Roger Kerr, Bryce Wilkinson and even myself.

The site is “dedicated to improving the quality of economic and public policy commentary in New Zealand”.

I’ve just posted an article on how, if Labour is re-elected, crown revenue will have increased by $30 billion over nine year. That is not a cumulative total, but a comparison of annual income going from around $40 billion in 1999 to over $70 billion in 2008.