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Maritime Union opposes any GST increase

Maritime Union General Secretary Joe Fleetwood says a proposed rise of GST to 15% suggested this afternoon by the Prime Minister would be bad for the majority of New Zealanders.

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says any ris­es in GST would hurt work­ers.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says a pro­posed rise of GST to 15% sug­gest­ed this after­noon by the Prime Min­is­ter would be bad for the major­i­ty of New Zealan­ders.

He says that GST hits ordi­nary work­ers hard, and any increase would be used to sub­si­dize income tax cuts for the wealthy.

“Any rise in GST will cre­ate more inequal­i­ty, a big­ger gap in wealth and will hurt the grow­ing num­ber of work­ing poor in New Zealand trapped in low income and casu­al jobs.”

Mr Fleet­wood says there seems to be lit­tle of sub­stance in the Prime Min­is­ter’s eco­nom­ic state­ment about the seri­ous increase in the num­ber of unem­ployed peo­ple, espe­cial­ly young peo­ple.

ENDS

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood on 021364649

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