So far…
Looter’s Bonus Loyalty Scheme
$250,000,000-$500,000,000: Treasury
Best guess: $360,000,000: Finance and Expenditure Select Committee
Could be: up to $1,000,000,000
No idea: John Key
Brokerage fees
$90,000,000: $7 million this year, $66 million next, $17 million in 2014
$1,100,000: spent so far
Won’t say: Bill English
Iwi settlements over water rights
(not ownership, because no-one owns water. As ImperatorFish says: “It would be like claiming ownership of a cloud or the air we breathe, or the soil beneath our feet. Who ever heard of such a thing?”)
No idea: any of us, least of all John Key
Advertising / PR
$30,000,000 ($120 million direct costs, minus brokerage fees)
Won’t say: John Key or Bill English
Total: $370,000,000 – $?,???,???,??? – a fair chunk of the $6 billion the government hopes for, even before you add on:
Lost Revenue
$100,000,000 per year: government books worse off according to Treasury
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