The happiest kiwis are Americans…but is it all a storm in a teacup?
As we all now know, Labour says it used American models to illustrate a taxpayer-funded advertisement promoting t
he Budget because it could not find a Kiwi family at a reasonable cost.
The Prime Minister dismissed the fact that her office effectively passed off these models as New Zealanders as “a storm in a teacup”.
The pamphlet, promoting last month’s Budget and paid for from Labour’s leader’s budget, promises “a fair economy for a strong future” for New Zealand families.
It has also been revealed that the same picture is being used by Australia’s Labor government to promote its affordable-housing policy.
The question is, what do you think – is this a storm in a teacup? Should we have had a kiwi family not matter what the cost? Does it show a government losing touch? Or does it suggest good fiscal responsible practice – after all, it’s just an illustration, isn’t it?
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