Thursday, 22 May 2008, 4:45 pm Article: Kevin List
Budget 2008: Scoop Images and
Musings
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version The wait for personal tax cuts
proved nail-bitingly tense for
some
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version An DJ set the mood early for Budget
2008 on with a mid level set of rare Javanese ambient house
– either that or this chap works for Parliamentary
TV
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version Mr David Farrar a ubiquitous blogger
ponders the budget prior to asking Dr Cullen some
independent questions from the realms of the
blogosphere.
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version "I think it is a very well calibrated
budget and a very tough budget to attack" John Tamihere to
Scoop on Budget 2008. Mr Tamihere was however cagey about
whether the Budget had won his
vote.
"What I think is missing
from this budget is a basic strategy for growth and the
framework of the economy" Business Roundtable chairman Roger
Kerr to Scoop on Budget 2008. Mr Kerr must have been in a
good mood last year when he gave the 2007 Budget a two out
of ten rating. This year Mr Kerr was playing hardball
telling Scoop the 2008 Budget would be lucky to make it to
one and a half (out of ten) on his Budget rating
system.
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version Jonathan Underhill part of the Scoop
team hurting their brains analysing the budget for the tax
cut awaiting
public.
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version What it's all about – a hard
working NZ media representative busily calculating when the
first payment on a porsche 911 can be made thanks to Dr
Cullen's
largesse.
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version These gentleman are employed by
Parliament as a sort of human cuckoo clock – either that
or public servants watching from on
high.
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version NZ's Finance Minister Dr Michael
Cullen – the star of the Budget show for nine years –
can he get to double figures
though…
