Who decides what questions we ask in our public debates?
There has been a lot of talk in the media about closing the gap with Australia and the need to increase growth and per capita income. I have a suggestion – borrowed from the ethicists utility monster – that I think might help. We take all of our plant and capital and give it to just one person, Don Brash might be willing to do this for us. That person would then have enough wealth and power to turn all our forests into chip and pulp, to mine all the parks and mountains, and to sell all the water (Australia would buy it, this would help close the gap in the amount of water between NZ and Australia since gap closing seems to be a current obsession). Don would grow so wealthy so rapidly that even our per capita income would be looking much better.
Makes sense unless there are other questions beside growth rates and per capita income we might like to ask?
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