Promised Tax increases won’t pay for all this Promised spending

“The new government is making promises that it won’t be able to keep. The tax increases won’t produce enough money to pay for it all.” says National’s Revenue Spokesperson, Annabel Young MP.

“They are creating an expectations gap. Either they will need to raise more money somewhere or there are cuts that they haven’t told us about.”

“It is naïve of the new Ministers to think that they fund it all out of savings. To date, even Labour’s frugality regime hasn’t produced any real cut in expenditure on Ministers’ offices.”

Annabel young was commenting on the Speech from the throne today. “It is a great leap backward that would make McGillicudy proud.”

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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>>