Family package that punishes families

Written By: - Date published: 7:42 am, May 29th, 2017 - 6 comments
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Apparently the Nats can’t even run a lolly scramble – Govt’s income package leaves 20,000 families with one child worse off: Labour

A nasty fish-hook in the Government’s Family Income package may leave up to 20,000 families with one child, worse off than couples with no children, Labour says.

Leader Andrew Little is calling it the “single child tax”, and says it’s the consequence of a more aggressive abatement rate that the Government also introduced to ensure the package was targeted to those who needed it most.

But it had failed to look after a large chunk of low to middle-income families, he said.

While those families would still see a net positive gain to their weekly pay packet, ones with a single child would get a smaller piece of the pie.

Brilliant.

Duncan Garner isn’t impressed with the budget either – National’s trying to buy this election – and they’re paying with your money

6 comments on “Family package that punishes families ”

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  1. saveNZ 1
    29 May 2017 at 9:32 am

    Wow, critique from Duncan Garner. He’s right apart from it sounds like the Natz budget is not quite the lolly scramble it looked to be.

    Will MSM bother to report it, when they have few journalists left and cheap click byte and bene bashing, to propagate.

  2. weka 2
    29 May 2017 at 9:36 am

    Sharon Murdoch’s cartoon on the Budget as failed lolly scramble,

    https://twitter.com/domesticanimal/status/868569708508848128

  3. JamieB 3
    29 May 2017 at 10:42 am

    From reading the headline and first couple of paragraphs I was under the impression this was a demographic that would have their incomes reduced from the changes.

    But then “While those families would still see a net positive gain to their weekly pay packet, ones with a single child would get a smaller piece of the pie.”

    So they’re not actually worse off, and Labour and this opinion post are really grasping at straws to find an actual problem with this budget.

    • Craig H 3.1
      29 May 2017 at 11:18 am

      No they aren’t worse off, but it’s a legitimate point that the Family package sees them getting less Working for Families than before.

  4. Keith 4
    29 May 2017 at 5:16 pm

    Thing is National did run an awesome lolly scramble pre Thursday for investors and the elite with the carefully timed leaks reporting the lies as if they were facts and on the day itself. It had the media wrongly telling us they were in Labour territory. And after that, who cares?

    It had NZ First voting for it, no surprises there but sadly the gullible Greens voting for aspects of it too, and that people, has been spun to gold by National, who have dined off it ever since. The damage done to the left is yet to be realised.

    All that mattered was they pulled off another con knowing empty headed politicians would jump on the band wagon rather than give it some thought. And they gauged the public’s non existent attention span and lack of questioning, spot on, knowing they will have almost immediately switched off after that.

    And that is what National are so good at, using that trust some still have in government, to sell lies!

  5. timeforacupoftea 5
    29 May 2017 at 8:02 pm

    errrh !
    Where were the lies.
    We are all getting an increase.
    At last the non child couples and singles are getting a catch up.

    Back to our fush & chups !

    VOTE NATIONAL

    sigh