Photo / Mark MitchellJason Walls is a political reporter for the New Zealand HeraldGreens co-leader and Associate Housing Minister Marama Davidson is yet again calling for the Prime Minister to consider implementing a wealth tax to cool down the red-hot housing market. She also spent weeks pushing back on National's suggestions that Labour would adopt the Greens' policy if Ardern was re-elected. But, in the deal hammered out by the two parties, there was no reference to a wealth tax being on the Government's policy agenda. "We are asking that we put the tools, all of them that are available to a government, back on the table," she said of a wealth tax. She was leading the pre-election charge on criticising the Greens' wealth tax plan.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 23, 2020 00:30 UTC