Shaggy, when were most of our farm subsisdies done aways with? I am just a young-un so I didnt take much notice of politics and news before 1990 or so
,,, Roger Douglas (under the Labour govt of the day) started his economic reforms around 1984. Never, ever has there been a time like it - I recall around 1987 that I was making a fortune on stocks here BUT and that's a significant BUT - you couldn't lose any way you looked - debentures were running @ 17 - 19%!!!
However, farmers were walking off their farms of course. We now have nothing subsidised in agriculture.
Just thought I'd tell y'all too that our Prime Minister got a $NZ12,700 pay increase today. Trying to work that one out.