The morning's worthies, on the closing of the tabs:
- Simon Bridges on an odd proposal to stop counting travel time savings when running CBAs on new roading projects. There's a good case that congestion charging is the first-best way of dealing with congestion, but travel time matters.
- In praise of the Auditor General
- I really hope the final version of the Future for Local Government's reform paper is stronger than is here signalled.
- Richard Harmon on the GST change that didn't happen. It's such a strange one. You'd have thought they'd have lined up the 'like clean tax' people on the right to have a supporting case ready.
- If I've read this right, it's setting up some horrible incentives around Tranche 2 "Better off" funding. Projects with local benefits unrelated to water get loaded into the debt taken on by the new amalgamated water services entities?
