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Topic

Tax Burden On Low-Income Groups

9 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

A podcast discussion on farm management, rates, local council finances, and the economic pressures of the cost of living crisis, highlighting concerns about unsustainable local government funding and the need for structural reforms including council amalgamation and increased tax

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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Heard on radio

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Jamie MacKay the-country The Country 04/05/26: Pita Alexander talks to Jamie Mackay 4 May · 40s

Another way you can save some money, and this is a controversial one and it's coming, it will be, I think, an election issue. I know it will be an election issue is national super. Age of eligibility. If I was in charge, Peter, I'd move it to 67 and I'd graduate in scale as quickly as I could. I'm not sure about means testing it. It's effectively means tested because super annuitants are taxed at the top marginal tax rate at which they earn income. So there's an element of. amount of fairness there. And should that national super, because you're a wealthy accountant who's still working at a ripe old age, Peter, should it be a universal benefit or should it be means tested?

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Sample framings

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national-party Centre-right

fairer, burden-light financial relief

\\ \\ **Matthew Paul selected for National in Port**\\ \\ 01 May, 2026\\ \\ Matthew Paul

8 May

the-country Government / N-A

unfair and unaffordable under current model

The Country 04/05/26: Pita Alexander talks to Jamie Mackay

4 May

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