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Budget 2016: Itches scratched but saving the calamine lotion for election year

Few political itches went unscratched in Bill English's eighth budget. With special feature audio.

Thu, 26 May 2016

Few political itches went unscratched in Bill English’s eighth budget.

But a wholesale application of calamine lotion – presumably in the pink form of large spending increases and some bluish tinted tax relief – will have to wait a year or two.

“Even if you have rising surpluses, the choices

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