Labour’s Hobbit Haters are back

The Herald reports:

The Labour Party wants to repeal the changes that were ceded to Warner Bros over films, a move which the says would cripple the $3 billion screen industry.

The Greens policies will kill off the oil industry while Labour's would kill off the . Combine the two of them together, and you shudder.

A $2 boost in the to $16.25 an hour by early 2015 would mean an extra $4000 a year for those workers – but the Government was quick to dismiss as costing up to 6000 jobs.

Why stop at $16.25? Why not $25 an hour?

Mr Bridges said the minimum wage in New Zealand was the highest in the world, relative to the average wage.

It is. The way to grow wages is to increase , not by legislation.

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