Author: Lindsay Mitchell

OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell I am not a supporter of government hand-outs. That’s because I am not a supporter of the government taking people’s money by force and deciding who to redistribute it to. That ability confers enormous power on the state. Taxing to redistribute only ever spirals upward. Wherever possible, earnings should be left largely with the earner – not expensively churned by dead weight bureaucracy. However, this latest ‘rescue’ package raising the In Work Tax Credit (IWTC) by $50 a week makes sense. It was Helen Clark’s Labour government that introduced the IWTC as part of Working For Families.…