Successive governments have sold us down the toilet with huge compliance and tax costs to small businesses and the average person.
On top of that our town has been turned into the place to be if you want a handout, not a hand-up.
Good luck to the next generation.
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Perry Bell
Rotorua
Go, Tania
I watched our new mayor Tania Tapsell on the AM show on television. She came across in a professional and informed manner concerning the blight of the homeless here and the effects on Rotorua.
I say go Tania you have my, and I’m sure many citizens of this once proud city’s support.
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Andy Watson
Rotorua
What’s next?
The cost of living crisis is beginning to bite even harder and I really wonder what this government will do next to relieve these price pressures.
Repeatedly Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson, have stated that the Government has increased the minimum wage, introduced free lunches into more schools, increased family tax credits, provided free public transport, increased benefits, supported the energy payment and reduced fuel taxes as a way of saying that they are listening to Kiwi’s financial pressures.
But the problem now, of course, is that these measures have already been introduced and people have already benefitted from these various government-provided payments along with, if in employment, wage increases etc but massive financial pressures continue to be applied, so what next?
For people on benefits, the energy payment does not recommence until May 2023 and there is also a likelihood that the 25 cents per litre fuel [subsidy] may be reinstated in January 2023 so how are Kiwis expected to balance their future budgets in these inflationary times and what else can the Government do to assist the people, it represents, without borrowing even more money?
Mike Baker
Tauranga
