ACT finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that Labour's Dr Michael Cullen
should do his homework before making ill-informed comments about ACT's budget
showing that it is indeed possible to get to a flat tax of twenty cents in the
dollar.

"Cullen has never put out an alternative Budget and shows a woeful ignorance of
the basics of economics.

"Instead of harping on about ACT, Dr Cullen should be costing Labour's promises
and putting his Budget out for inspection. Why hasn't he done it? Can't he
do it?

"I challenge Dr Michael Cullen to put out a Budget and follow ACT's lead and
ask Infometrics for an independent assessment. Cullen should put up or shut
up," said Rodney Hide.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>