OPINION
The retirement age was always going to get the headline. That's why I would have said all the other stuff the Nats have said, separately. Because the other stuff they have said is part of what looks like a fairly concerted and organised effort by a party that is on the ascendancy.
Cutting the corporate tax rate is well overdue, and juxtaposes a party looking to increase taxes. I didn't know we take in one of the highest tax takes in the OECD, which is nothing to be proud of. But what I did know, is we are out of whack with Australia and it's never a good sign when you're taxing higher than one of your biggest trading partners.
When a business can so easily choose one side of the Tasman or the other, you want to make it your side, and tax helps that argument. The tax bracket creep already addressed by the party makes sense, and is also badly overdue and yet another reminder of just how highly taxed we are.
The fact that the average income in the major centres now enters into the top tax rate is bordering on criminal.