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Old Feb 14, 2008, 10:52 am   #13 (permalink) (top)
G. Adams
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Please, lets see you try and justify that statement.

Considering that it was the Labour government that was responsible for selling off most of the state assets to private enterprise.
This website, Darnton vs Clark gives a decent covering of the problems of New Zealands current government.

In addition a brief scan of wiki tells me she has introduce tax credits (crediting your own money back to you rather than not taking it in the first place demonstrates the assumption a principle of considering the money governments in the first place), raising minimum wage 6 times in her tenure (presumption that society at large has a right to determine trade between two private individuals) etc

Also from wiki on how lovely her government is...

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In 2007, Clark's Government introduced the Electoral Finance Bill, which will make it illegal for lobby-groups to spend more than NZ$500 criticising MPs without first registering with a government agency. Parliament sent the legislation to a select committee for consideration. So far, the Bill has been highly controversial and has attracted severe criticism from organizations such as the New Zealand Herald for its alleged attack on freedom of speech.


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